Stations Quotes - Page 22

• Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

  Oscar Wilde

  Car, Buffets, Next

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• No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Spiritual, Humanity, Thrones

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• The same way people are now paying a couple thousand dollars to fly to other parts of the world, people will be paying $50,000 to spend a weekend on a space station.

  Alan Shepard

  Couple, Weekend, Space

  "The Day the Earth Stood Still - On Film, Anyway" by Malcolm Howard, The Record, p. B08, April 30, 1987.

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• I thought I was going to die a few times. On the Freedom Ride in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7th, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a State Trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of nonviolence.

  John Lewis

  Philosophy, Night, Bridges

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• I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

  Charlotte Lamb

  Understanding, Mind, Wish

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• The cable operators are paying to show content. The most important content you have is the broadcast stations. They take the position that over the air is free to people, so it should be free to them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Air, People, Contentment

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• There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.

  Bill Vaughan

  Success, Goal, Hazards

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• The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Excellence, May

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• If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover.

  Maria Menounos

  Country, South Carolina, Roles

  Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Writing is not work. In fact, theres nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs.

  Toby Keith

  Song, Writing, Radio

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• I'm a vegan. But, no one believes it because when you're out in the field, most of your meal options involve meat with a side of something fried. I've learned how to be creative and improvise and can eat anywhere - even a steak house or a gas station.

  Nicole Lapin

  Believe, Steak House, Creative

  "Woman of Power". Interview with 944 Magazine, November 2007.

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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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• Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.

  James F. Cooper

  Apathy, Fancy, Woe

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• Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.

  Solomon

  Kings, Work, Men

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• Choosing education is a very good decision, not only good for the student, but also for our country. The United States was the first nation in history to recognize that public education for every citizen, regardless of class or station, was vital to its future . . .

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Class, Decision

  Mitt Romney (2010). “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness”, p.196, Macmillan

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• Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations.

  Stephen Harper

  Police, Wonderful, Members

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• When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.

  Edward Ruscha

  Book, People, Looks

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• The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

  Confucius

  Men, Desire, Doe

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.291

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• People wanted to vote for us but the mechanics of getting the voters to the polling stations we didnt have. We did not have the money most of all .

  Imran Khan

  People, Voters, Mechanic

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• John R. told me you don't work for the radio station. You work for the people out there.

  Wolfman Jack

  People, Radio, Radio Stations

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• No matter how close we got to a station or a disc jockey ... they could disappear into the ether without so much as a wave goodbye or a farewell song.

  Ben Fong-Torres

  Goodbye, Song, Farewell

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• The station was tight, aggressive ... the deejays at times sounding as if they were broadcasting at gunpoint.

  David Carson

  Broadcasting, Deejays, Aggressive

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• I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Gas Stations, Back To Work, Very Romantic

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• I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Fall, Men, Favors

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.58, Hackett Publishing

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• Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations; for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal; for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.

  Tom Stoppard

  War, Oil, Gloves

  1974 Travesties.

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