Quotes About Train Stations

#1. I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.

Saul Williams

#2. Travelling has a special scent: The scent of excitement! To smell this scent, visit the airports or the train stations or the harbours!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. What future did the Jazter see for himself, exactly? Would his days of shikar continue indefinitely, or did he dare look beyond the beaches and the train stations and the alleys? Could he, in some part buried deep within, secretly crave conventionality? (Or was that too much of a heresy?)

Manil Suri

#4. If I get the walk of a character, that helps me find them. So I'm constantly looking at airports and train stations, registering walks.

Stephen Graham

#5. Do you remember the long orphanage of the train stations
We crossed cities that turn-tabled all day
And vomited at night the sunshine of the day ("The Voyager")

Pierre Albert-Birot

#6. They don't know I only speak in runaway train stations
and everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform.
No one has ever gotten the chance to get too close
because it is never romantic to fuck the girl who makes love to her own sadness every single night.

Katelin Wagner

#7. I like marketplaces. I like train stations; I like being in trains. I like airports. I like walking down the street with a pen in my hand, writing, writing, writing.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#8. People here notice when you have gunfights in train stations!

Lance Charnes

#9. Airports and train stations are where you get to cry

Karen Joy Fowler

#10. Where my tendons have been torn, my psyche has been mended. This was a worthy trade.

Chris Matakas

#11. Humility exists only in those who are poor enough to see that they possess nothing of their own.

Angela Of Foligno

#12. It was as if their feet ran on parallel train tracks and pulled in at the same stations at the same time, over and over.

Barbara O'Neal

#13. Truth be told, my emergency escape plan was a little flawed. At least I'd made it over the fence.

Kylie Scott

#14. Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

Ruth St. Denis

#15. You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

Michael Nesmith

#16. Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.

Yasmina Khadra

#17. All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms.

Patti Smith

#18. Any time a man comes along and says 'Indians' or 'Mexicans' or 'Englishmen' he's bound to be wrong. Each man is a person unto himself, and you'll find good, bad, and indifferent wherever you go.

Louis L'Amour

#19. I think that men should wear shoes that if there's an emergency, they're gonna be able to help.

Blake Shelton

#20. It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.

Charles Spurgeon

#21. Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.

C.S. Lewis

#22. What do you mean? We have it, we raise it, we send it to school, keep it from getting eaten by wolves or becoming a stripper, and we're good.

Jay Crownover

#23. Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.

Dean Koontz

#25. If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

Bernard Malamud

#26. I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.

Jarvis Cocker

#27. If a train stops at a train station, what do you think happens at a work station?

Hal Varian

#28. On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!

Peter Roebuck