Train Sound Quotes

#1. And life isn't like the movies: There's no ominous swell to the sound track, no fatalistic overhead shot, nothing to tell you that this moment is the one your life will turn on; instead it's like a train silently switching tracks, sheering off midjourney into a whole other part of the night.

Paul Murray

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

Patricia Highsmith

#3. 'The Woman on the Train' just didn't sound as good. I'll take care next time not to have 'girl' in the title.

Paula Hawkins

#4. (Excerpt from Leaving Things Alone)
You train your eye and your vision lusts after colour. You train your ear, and you long for delightful sound. You delight in doing good, and your natural kindness is blown out of shape. You delight in righteousness, and you become righteous beyond all reason.

Thomas Merton

#5. I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can't control their bodies.

Joe Biden

#6. If I'm on a train, with headphones, MP3s are great. At home, I prefer CD or vinyl, partly because they sound a little better in a quiet room and partly because they're finite in length and separate things, unlike the endless days and days of music stored on my laptop.

Jonny Greenwood

#7. There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

Paul Simon

#8. Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?

Mortimer J. Adler

#9. Its sound in her soul was a distant fast train. Love did not bring happiness, it did not last, and it ended in pain. She did not want to believe this, and she was not certain that she did; perhaps she feared it was true in her own life, and her fear had become a feeling that tasted like disbelief.

Andre Dubus

#10. You can only sharpen a blade so far. In the end, it comes down to the quality of metal.

Leigh Bardugo

#11. When I'm sore, ice is my best friend. It really works. I take omega-3s every day, which helps with inflammation. And I try to eat things that won't inflame my joints, like fresh fruits and veggies, lean protein, and seafood.

Kerri Walsh

#12. Your imagination is your preview of life coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

#13. The whistling of a ghost is like no other sound in a fistful of universes, because it is woven of all the whistles the ghost has ever heard, and so it usually includes train moans, lunch whistles, fire alarms, and the affronted-virgin screaming of tea kettles.

Peter S. Beagle

#14. The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.

Feist

#15. If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors. I hope and pray that all you parents in the sound of my voice will train up your children in the way they should go.

Charles Portis

#16. Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

James Dyson

#17. No treaty but trenches
all quiet
years to years
home in no man's land.

David Levithan

#18. When families bring children into the world, train them in faith and sound values, and teach them to contribute to society, they become a blessing in our world.

Pope Francis

#19. We just stole a painting and smuggled ourselves off a train," Amy said, trying to sound confident. "And we can't shop?

Jude Watson

#20. The train hit her with the sound of a meat-filled hefty bag smacking the pavement, and the effect was much the same, I guess. (Dark City Lights)

Warren Moore

#21. 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