Railway Man Quotes

#1. It was a movie [The Railway Man] that stayed with me a long time. It's still one of the things I'm most proud of. I got to know the man that I was playing and unfortunately he passed away just before the movie came out. It's one that meant a huge amount to me, and one that I'm particularly proud of.

Jeremy Irvine

#2. We are all such egotists that a sorrow or hardship - provided it is great enough - flatters our self-importance. We feel that a calamity by overtaking us has distinguished us above our fellows. A man likes not to be ignored even by a railway accident. A man with a grievance is always happy.

W.N.P. Barbellion

#3. Nobody sees any one as he is, let alone an elderly lady sitting opposite a strange young man in a railway carriage. They see a whole
they see all sorts of things
they see themselves ...

Virginia Woolf

#4. I once knew a man who built a railway all for himself.

Alessandro Baricco

#5. Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road, and leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. What was a prisoner of war anyway? Less than a man, just material to be used to make the railway, like the teak sleepers and steel rails and dog spikes.

Richard Flanagan

#7. Even after nearly 50 years in this business, I still feel like I'm lucky every time I get a decent job, but an opportunity to work with people of that ilk.

Sam Elliott

#8. Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.

Richard Jefferies

#9. You have to be a warrior and say, "Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine." (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)

Anne Lamott

#10. Cheer up beautiful people ... this is where you get to make it right.

Walter White

#11. Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Anatole France

#12. The great paralysis of our heart is unbelief.

Oswald Chambers

#13. Take the time out to have a look at yourself, it might help you to appreciate yourself better.

Shampa Sharma

#14. How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

Christian Nestell Bovee

#15. The Giraffe took the horse's head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train.

Henry Lawson

#16. Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Aldous Huxley

#17. Creativity exists more in the searching than in the finding.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#18. The thing I absolutely love about food is it's a common thread that connects us no matter what culture we come from.

Poh Ling Yeow

#19. A roster,for example, is a lovely machine - who doesn't love its warm, crispy ejaculations?

Robert Brockway

#20. If you dare to create something and put it out there, after all, then it may accidentally stir up a response. That's the natural order of life: the eternal inhale and exhale of action and reaction. But you are definitely not in charge of the reaction - even when that reaction is flat-out bizarre.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#21. Man always behave like a snail on the railway! He thinks he has infinite time and moves accordingly, with the speed of unbelievable and nerve-wracking slowness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.

William Clark

#23. The only exercise I get is playing sports because I hate the gym. I try to learn to love it.

Paul Dano

#24. We breathe our deepest during sleep.
When we are in the state of full rest.
We are able to be.

J.R. Rim

#25. Aaron Sisson was the last man on the little black railway-line

D.H. Lawrence