Railway Train Quotes

#1. Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.

Paul Theroux

#3. The great Pacific Railway is commenced ... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years ... This is the grandest enterprise under God!

George Francis Train

#4. In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds - that is the sole difference.

Jean-Baptiste Dumas

#5. Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.

William Irwin Thompson

#6. People might think it lonely living on my own nearly all the time, but I never found it lonely. I always had plenty to think about, and anyway maybe I'm not so good on people.

Winston Graham

#7. Strange how my body and its purity have become the town's sacred possessions, yet they spare me no pity. It's as if they were the ones wronged, not me.

Julie Berry

#8. Life is completely different when you live near a railway station. It feels as if you're just passing through. Everything is temporary. One day or another, you'll hop on a train.

Patrick Modiano

#9. I worked for a charity for a while, but ... well, I started acting while I was in high school. I kind of just got lucky enough to live at my parents' house until I was actually making enough money to be somebody's roommate.

Shannon Woodward

#10. Hate will only eat the truth, then spit out a lie.

Anthony Liccione

#11. Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

John Hegley

#12. 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

#13. Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. It is essential that you follow your own idea of passion, even if to others it looks like suffering.

Bryant McGill

#15. No for the return of Saddam's Baath party. This is against the constitution and those who are negotiating to bring them back are violating the constitution.

Jalal Talabani

#16. I didn't see my son the entire time I did 'Dancing With the Stars.' The only time I saw Jeffrey was when he came to the show Monday and Tuesday nights to watch me dance. You literally rehearse six to eight hours every single day - 40 to 50 hours a week.

Sherri Shepherd

#17. When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a state we call inspiration.

Constantin Stanislavski

#18. I see these conferences as a good way to have a break from the day-to-day, learn about some new tech, polish up on some old skills and hopefully have some fun also. They're also good as they show my company is prepared to invest in my skillset.

Rob Mills

#19. I was about one drink away from my limit,
In came a black dress with a black body in it,
She looked so timid, it took me a minute
To get her in focus

Aceyalone

#20. I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.

Dan Aykroyd

#21. Well," Skulduggery said, "purely to get this out of the way, I'll just go ahead and say it. There does not seem to be any sign of a railway track on the carpet or, indeed, a train hiding behind the sofa. And I don't think one could have fitted through the door.

Derek Landy

#22. I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.

Sydney Brenner

#23. Believe me, Athelstan, you can wrap a dog's turd in a cloth of gold but it remains a dog's turd.

Paul Doherty

#24. Joy arises only in creating joy for others; there is no other way. The more people you can make happy, the more you will feel happy. This is the real meaning of service.

Rajneesh

#25. We can never give up longing and wishing while we are throughly alive

George Eliot

#26. What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.

Israelmore Ayivor

#27. I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

#28. Olive thought she had forgotten what pain could be. She was a railway tunnel in which a battering train had come to a fiery halt. She was a burrow in which a creature had wedged itself and could go neither forwards nor back.

A.S. Byatt

#29. 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