Railway Quotes - Page 5

• Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom

  Tahir Shah

  Reading, Doors, Water

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 17, 2013

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• Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not.

  Karl Marx

  Country, Hands, Titles

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Bibbins Aveling, Friedrich Engels (1961). “Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production”

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• I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.

  Claire Denis

  Track, Firsts, Directors

  Interview with Adam Nayman, reverseshot.org. June 26, 2009.

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• Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

  James Buchan

  Fall, Dust, Bulls

  "Greed and amnesia: the devils in financial history". www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy outside. 'Go and look at a railway station,' I was told, 'and you'll be horrified.' I went and was horrified; horrified by the cleanliness of the place.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Dirty

  George Mikes (1970). “The land of the rising yen: Japan”, Harvard Common Press

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• So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.

  Robert Fripp

  Different, Orchestra, Railway Station

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• Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp ache of the frost in the girders of the overhead railway, in the iron-work of balconies, in bridges, tramlines, lamp-standards, latrines. The iron throbs and shrinks, the stone and the bricks ache dully, the plaster is numb.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Skeletons, Bridges, Iron

  Christopher Isherwood (1963). “The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris [and] Goodbye to Berlin”, p.186, New Directions Publishing

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• Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Optimistic, Helpful, Train

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• I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?

  Elie Wiesel

  America, President, Allies

  Interview with Professor Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of the most exciting infrastructure in Britain. Crossrail is the new railway which will run from West to East right across London. It is the biggest engineering project in Europe - and Phyllis herself is not exactly dainty.

  Evan Davis

  Running, Character, Tunnels

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• Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.

  Arthur Smith

  Scary, Important, Ongoing

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• The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California

  John Moody

  California, Discovery, Gold

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• In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government

  John Moody

  War, Land, Government

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• Finally I got to carbon, and as you all know, in the case of carbon the reaction works out beautifully. One goes through six reactions, and at the end one comes back to carbon. In the process one has made four hydrogen atoms into one of helium. The theory, of course, was not made on the railway train from Washington to Ithaca ... It didn't take very long, it took about six weeks, but not even the Trans-Siberian railroad [has] taken that long for its journey.

  Hans Bethe

  Taken, Journey, Hydrogen Atom

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• Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

  William Topaz McGonagall

  Beautiful, Time, Sorry

  William Topaz McGonagall, “The Tay Bridge Disaster”

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• The Railway Man was a particularly intense and immersive experience. I definitely got carried away. I lost about 35 pounds. I really was incredibly skinny and also quite unwell while we were filming. It wasn't very healthy. I don't recommend it. But then also doing the torture scenes, the water boarding stuff, there wasn't really any other way just to do it really.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Men, Water, Healthy

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• [After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris]
  [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power; yet they, and all other artists, constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

  Henry Adams

  Art, Paris, World

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• We must play music quietly, talk quietly, weep in private, because I am the all-powerful Zahir, who lays down the rules and determines the distance between railway tracks, the meaning of success, the best way to love, the importance of rewards.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Powerful, Distance

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• As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Law, Tree, Ignorant

  Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.85, Verso

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• For it is no railways, roads, and power stations that give rise to industrial capitalism: it is the emergence of industrial capitalism that leads to the building of railways, to the construction of roads, and to the establishment of power stations.

  Paul A. Baran

  Giving, Construction, Building

  "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 6, (p. 193), 1957.

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• It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about Pacific 231 and Le Pas d'Acier. One feels...that Prokofieff should have written ballets about the spinning jenny and the Luddite riots; that Honegger should have been there to celebrate the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the death of Huskisson with a "Symphonie Triomphale et Funèbre".

  Constant Lambert

  Fun, Should Have, Spinning

  "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, Hogarth Press edition, "Mechanical Romanticism", pp. 209-10, 1934.

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• In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more humiliating and debasing role than that in which the railway unions appear at this very hour before the American people and the world.

  Eugene V. Debs

  People, Roles, World

  "You Railroad Men". Essay by Eugene V. Debs (February 3, 1906); published in Eugene V. Debs "Debs, His Life, Writings and Speeches: With a Department of Appreciations", 1908.

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• He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce.

  Fintan O'Toole

  Fence Post, Insult, Week

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• My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Jobs, Firsts, Civil Service

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• Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907, 1929 and 1987.In economies and politics, as in war, an astonishing number of people die, like the man on the railway crossing, defending their right of way. This is a poorly developed instinct in Switzerland. No country so firmly avows the principles of private enterprise but in few have the practical concessions to socialism been more numerous and varied.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, War, Men

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