Rail Quotes - Page 4

• Chekhov's stories are about the moment that a life goes off the rails and the price that will be paid - forever. That's a typical Chekhov story for you. Something that you're used to lying in bed worrying about at four in the morning, before you have the psychic defenses to kid yourself and tell yourself to get up and shower and go to the office.

  Lorin Stein

  Morning, Lying, Kids

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Mark and jay Duplass really like to improvise. Even if we beg them to go back to the script, they invariably ask us to go "off the rails," as they like to call it. It's just the way they work. You get a full written script. And it's really, really, really good, so that's why it's kind of peculiar that they always want you to improvise, because if I wrote something that good, I would want everyone to stick to the dialogue that was written.

  Amanda Peet

  Peculiar, Want, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Since we don't have a tyrant or a dictator, we can't put people who are burning flag in jail. But Donald Trump is telling you what he thinks of 'em. He's not gonna do anything of the sort. This is where people go off the rails with Trump, with this literal business and so fort

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Dictator

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The fortunate and successful New Urbanists will be the ones who can find local infill projects in small towns and small cities associated with farming, water transport, (perhaps rail too) and water power. I do not believe personally that we will retrofit much of suburbia in the way many people wish we might. The capital won't be there, and I'm rather convinced that the population is headed down - though this will be a lagging effect, because even starving people have sex.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Sex, Believe, Successful

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• It is true that we need a consensus to go forward with restoring passenger rail in America, and often a consensus is formed by political action, via government. That is all true. But we have no such consensus, and no one in government or politics these days has the will or the force of personality or perhaps even the understanding of the situation to get on with job of forming a consensus supporting rail.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Jobs, America, Government

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion (weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like high-speed rail, (3) serious efforts to move to sustainable energy, probably solar in the somewhat longer term, (4) other adjustments that are feasible. If done effectively, that might be enough to stave off disaster. If not, then we can give up the ghost, because there are no alternatives in this world, at least none that I've seen suggested.

  Noam Chomsky

  Giving Up, Moving, Effort

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I was on set [Romeo + Juliet] maybe an hour for two days. It was in this big cathedral in Mexico City. I just remember being up there in the balcony, and it was myself up front and there was a choir behind me. In front of me was this rail, like this cement rail, and I was like, "Oh my gosh!" Because I was a kid then, and I'm like, "We're kinda high ... I hope I don't flip over," because I'm very clumsy.

  Quindon Tarver

  Kids, Cities, Two

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• This is not even Bill Clinton's Democrat Party, anymore. This party, the Democrat Party of today, is so off the rails and so radical that Christians and Catholics are leaving the Democrat Party.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Christian, Party, Catholic

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It feels good to rail against what is wrong in the world, to fight the good fight, to beat the drum of making a difference. I am right there with you.

  Brenda Strong

  Fighting, Differences, Feel Good

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• Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time.
  Now, web designers and software engineers can develop a website
  much faster and more simply, enabling them to be more productive
  and effective in their work.

  Bruce Perens

  Steps, Rubies, Enabling

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• What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having a party and who looks eternally youthful?

  Ian Astbury

  Stars, Party, Rocks

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• I received a wonderful email after I spoke at a school from a girl who'd lived in a war zone and endured horrors no human being should suffer, let alone a child. This young lady was fortunate to be bought to Britain and seemed to adjust well, but suddenly found herself falling off the rails and sliding into hell when I chatted to her. In her letter, she told me the difference that I'd made. She's now 20 years old and a fashion designer employing staff and she puts her work ethic down purely to talking to me. It's my most treasured letter.

  Simon Weston

  Girl, Fashion, Children

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• These commercials, I directed them all from inside the tracking vehicle, so I was traveling about 85mph most of the time, so there wasn't really anyone sitting beside me other than the driver. But, you know, yeah the agency is there and VW is there, which is- they're paying for it all and also because the agency created the boards, they want to make sure that you're not going off the rails in executing it. And also they can help, because they- it's a very different thing to cinema.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Agency, Different, Boards

  Source: collider.com

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• I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.

  Grace Jones

  Interesting, Faces, Skinny

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• The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the town and the town to the country.... It energized punctuality, discipline, and attention; and proved a moral teacher by the influence of example.

  Samuel Smiles

  Country, Teacher, Iron

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• What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Car, Movement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.161

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• Internationally, there are countries going well beyond the course, with airlines, transportation. There are systems around the world that have explored mining, rail transport, television, communication, Internet service - there very common examples around the world that we can draw examples from.

  Gar Alperovitz

  Country, Communication, Example

  Source: www.salon.com

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• There was an Old Man with an owl, Who continued to bother and howl; He sate on a rail, and imbibed bitter ale, Which refreshed that Old Man and his owl.

  Edward Lear

  Men, Alcohol, Owl

  Edward Lear (2009). “The Book of Nonsense”, p.35, The Floating Press

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• As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war.

  Eugene B. Sledge

  War, Compassion, Sea

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• Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Devotion, Said, Free Market

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• Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.

  Jasper Fforde

  Determination, Self, Peculiar

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• America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail.

  Greg Abbott

  America, Community, Speed

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• When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

  Philipp Meyer

  Novel, Deals, Abstraction

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• If you offer people a decent service, if you give them you know Internet access, if their phones are not cut off on the trains, you know if you have plugs where they can plug in their computers, and if you have a smiling, cheerful staff; and if you can travel really quickly, then you can make a success out of the rail business.

  Richard Branson

  Cutting, Phones, Internet Access

  "Sir Richard Branson: The full interview". "Marketplace" with Jeremy Hobson, www.marketplace.org. April 27, 2012.

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• That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em,
  We may live with, but cannot live without 'em.

  Frederic Reynolds

  Women, Ems, May

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