The 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. The memory is a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

Taylor Mali

#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. I discovered that the heart is a breakable thing, but also discovered my capacity to love another person.

Tishuan Scott

#6. 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

#7. 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

#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. To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world, nor on our own consciences.

J. William Fulbright

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

Daniel Goleman

#13. 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

#14. Christopher Reeve so completely inhabited the character Superman when he was in that costume, and that had such a huge effect on me as a child, watching those films back in the '70s. There was so much of that character that was, for me, Superman.

Gary Frank

#15. We'll just take it one step at a time.
Okay.
Don't let go.
Okay.
No matter what.
No matter what.

Cormac McCarthy

#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. ...YES, HELLO...I'VE FOUND A HOLE...IN MY APARTMENT...YES, NO...IT KEEPS MOVING...YES...COULD YOU COME AND HAVE A LOOK...NO...OK...TAKE IT WITH ME...TO YOU? HOW...HELLO?

Oyvind Torseter

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. I thank God that He didn't answer Jesus' prayer in the garden - otherwise I'd still be on the hook for my own salvation.

Jared Brock

#21. 1.If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion, life itself will be the religion.

Osho

#22. Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.

John Bigelow

#23. Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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

D.H. Lawrence