Rail Quotes

• Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

  A. A. Milne

  Life, Meaningful, Native American

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• Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Travel, Car, Towns

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• Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past
  Into different lives, or into any future;
  You are not the same people who left that station
  Or who will arrive at any terminus,
  While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Past, Escaping

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.170, Faber & Faber

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• My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it into lumber. And, you know, the mines needed things they call timbers and collars and so forth, and they used collars on the railroad track that they put the rails on. And he - that was his occupation, just a sawmill man and a logger.

  Ralph Stanley

  Father, Cutting, Men

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

  Henry Fielding

  Envy, Would Be, Literature

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.338, Delphi Classics

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• You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Travel, Infrastructure, Economist

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• Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

  Dionysius Lardner

  Follow Your Dreams, Aviation, Speed

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• All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

  Helen Thomas

  President, Turf, Presses

  "Hearst" Newspaper Column, October 15, 2003.

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• In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

  William Congreve

  Believe, Suffering, Criticism

  'The Old Bachelor' (1693) act 1, sc. 1

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• . . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first.

  Geneen Roth

  Inspiring, Journey, Somewhere Else

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• slept all night in the cedar grove, i was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin' for the holy grail, but there ain't nothin' sweeter than ridin' the rails

  Tom Waits

  Night, Men, Holy Grail

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• Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

  E. M. Forster

  Travel, Adventure, Sunshine

  Howards End ch. 2 (1910)

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• Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Track, Revival

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The collected works of Watchman Nee”

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• Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.

  Roger Ebert

  Running, Lines, Film

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.23, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I like being the villian. I don't know if it has to do with my personality. You get to have a lot more fun as a villian. You don't have to stick to the rules. You can be a lot crazier. You can go off the rails.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Fun, Personality, Sticks

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace - some people think that simply being nice and not harming others is morality; others think that following rules and tithing are morality. But without Christ, all moral beliefs ultimately boil down to the one sin which perpetually rails against the concept of grace: man's lawful, religious, and futile attempt at establishing his own righteousness.

  Criss Jami

  Religious, Nice, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.15, Criss Jami

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• I am at that age when former child stars go off the rails.

  Charlotte Church

  Stars, Children, Age

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• I don't do my show for critics. Early on I did, because I'm a nice guy and I like to be liked by everybody, and I thought, "Hey, I'm just making people laugh, what's the big deal?" There have been all different types of comics that appeal to all different types of people. Why rail on me? But yeah, they really don't like Southern acts.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Nice, People, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's the occasion when politicians will say things that are simply not true, or that they make commitments that they have no intention of fulfilling. That is something that I think should not happen. That's a no-no. That's a third rail that you shouldn't touch.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Commitment, Thinking, Politician

  "Malcolm Turnbull, Member for Wentworth". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 30, 2010.

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• The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.

  James Russell Lowell

  Winter, Swans, Snow

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.379

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• I think the most important thing is to take the long view on things. We live in such a 24/7, Twitter-fed, constant news cycle, and everything's a crisis, everything is terrible, everything is doomsday, everything is - if it doesn't get solved tomorrow, your presidency is going off the rails.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Views, Long

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear; With God and Fate to rail at, suffering easily.

  Matthew Arnold

  God, Fate, Air

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.26

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• Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Sports, Teenager

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• It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.

  Alan Greenspan

  Years, Creative, Important

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.72, Penguin

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• When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Wise, Innovation, Prejudice

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.52, Booklassic

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