Strangers On A Train Quotes

#1. The politeness was unbearable. They avoided touching each other, careful as strangers on a train ... A family can go on for years without the love that once bound it together, like a lovely old wall that stays standing long after rain has crumbled the mortar.

Kathleen Winter

#2. Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

Paul Theroux

#3. What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?

Patricia Highsmith

#4. And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.

Andre Aciman

#5. If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits.

James Joyce

#6. We haven't been strangers since I pulled you out of the slave quarters to train you as a soldier.

Susan Ee

#7. My daddy served in the army where he lost his right eye, but he flew a flag out in our yard until the day that he died. He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me, to grow up and live happy in the land of the free.

Toby Keith

#8. Do people who wave at trains Wave at the driver, or at the train itself? Or, do people who wave at trains Wave at the passengers? Those hurtling strangers, The unidentifiable flying faces?

Roger McGough

#9. The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Jean-Luc Godard

#10. This was the night bus, not a Journey song. Two strangers were not on a midnight train going anywhere. I was going home, and he was probably going to knock over a liquor store.

Jenn Bennett

#11. What do soy beans and vibrators have in common? They're both meat substitutes.

Supervert

#12. I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

Patricia Highsmith

#13. I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.

Sam Yagan

#14. It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.

Cherie Priest

#15. He turned to her and said, "About time," when the train finally creaked in, with the familiarity strangers adopt with each other after sharing in the disappointment of a public service.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#16. Writing:
It starts at the keyboard,
and it ends at the far corners of the universe.
Paako

Vincent Lowry

#17. Long-distance train conversations are unlike the perfunctory exchanges one normally associates with strangers, or the truncated, cut-to-the-chase kind that sometimes take place between seatmates on a plane.

Alan Huffman

#18. Earth to Beatrix: This was the night bus, not a Journey song. Two strangers were not on a midnight train going anywhere. I was going home, and he was probably going to knock over a liquor store. When

Jenn Bennett

#19. Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

Ann Voskamp

#20. Englishmen did not speak to strangers on trains ...

Ken Follett

#21. The same ten minutes that magazines urge me to use for sit-ups and triceps dips, I used for sobbing.

Tina Fey

#22. Healing is an inside job.

B. J. Palmer

#23. I looked up at this train car full of strangers, and my heart soared. In New Hampshire, I'd always felt like a goat among sheep; until I got to New York it had never occurred to me that there could be a place filled with other goats.

Sarah Silverman

#24. I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers ... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

Beau Bridges

#25. Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

Ludovico Ariosto

#26. A little while alone in your room
will prove more valuable than anything else
that could ever be given you.

Rumi

#27. What we miss is how unsustainable that is. Even bigger is the idea that we as a nation are not made up of businesses, banks, malls, markets, homes or things. Our greatest asset is ourselves: our lives and our people. The real investment should be there.

Brian Ulrich