Speeding Train Quotes

#1. But the transition from the New York Times to the Ashton Clarion was like jumping off a speeding train into a wall of half-set Jell-O.

Frank E. Peretti

#2. He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!

Tim Burton

#3. Sir U fell down from a speeding train,
Which did some damage to his brain,
And after that he did not know
How to pronounce the letter O.

Edward Gorey

#4. Life is beautiful. He who reads that
As in the window of some distant, speeding train
Knows what he wants, and what will befall.

John Ashbery

#5. Like a speeding train
I am passing by...
I don't know
where I'm heading
with whom or why
all I know is that
I will never, ever
pass from here again
all I know is I'm skidding forward
on this track of life.

Sanober Khan

#6. The authorized biographers - the ones hand-picked to write the sanitized version of a subject's life - sit up front with the swells while the unauthorized biographer who writes without access or approval gets elbowed to the back of the bus.

Kitty Kelley

#7. I am happy to play the bad man.

Amrish Puri

#8. I don't care about anything. But I care about you.

Stephanie Perkins

#9. You with your light meter and relaxed itinerary,
Let not our naive labours have been in vain!

Derek Mahon

#10. No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

Peter Drucker

#11. You see, Valentin, there is no such thing as time. It's just a road, a path to travel on. Most of the world is on a train, traveling forward all the time, speeding toward death, with a set schedule and someone else in charge.

Daniel Nayeri

#12. Suicide is the night train, speeding your way to darkness.

Martin Amis

#13. I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with.

Sonny Rollins

#14. I smoke herb, but what's the harm it that?

Nelly

#15. On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.

Christian Dior

#16. I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

Hilary Mantel

#17. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth.

A.W. Tozer

#18. Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

Morris West