Quotes About Train Whistles

#1. Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are?
Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.

George Bailey

#2. My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head ... I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

Jack Tatum

#3. The trick is not to satisfy everyone, but to leave everyone feeling they reached the best possible result.

Robert Jordan

#4. In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.

Bernard Lown

#5. Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.

Eric Mazur

#6. But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

Brian Lumley

#7. The whistling of a ghost is like no other sound in a fistful of universes, because it is woven of all the whistles the ghost has ever heard, and so it usually includes train moans, lunch whistles, fire alarms, and the affronted-virgin screaming of tea kettles.

Peter S. Beagle

#8. When you are on the edge of death you are no longer a child. You understand things you couldn't even comprehend as an adult.

Adrienne Wilder

#9. Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Sigmund Freud

#10. Since I am never alone with myself. Since I am always watching the character playing my part in the scene, there is no possibility of spontaneity.

Ronan Bennett

#11. I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

Shane McCrae

#12. room below and a bedchamber above.

Julie Klassen

#13. I was born to stand out. I don't care whether or not people will find me attractive on screen. That's not why I became an actor. I know that more and more with each new role.

Gabourey Sidibe

#14. I've made one or two movies that I haven't even seen, because they were never released. I have made things that I never even saw. But I will always go see the movie I'm in.

Christopher Walken

#15. Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose.

George Kaiser

#16. You can blame it all on fate and the universe, but in the end you alone decide if you're going to lie down and let hell take you under, or if you're going to stand strong in defiance of it all with your middle finger raised.

Sherrilyn Kenyon