Stations Quotes - Page 26

• The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf - a philosopher or servant, - but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wisdom, Kings, Truth

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

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• And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the new snowmen that had sprung up mysteriously overnight or the old ones that had been stricken with disease and lay cracked apart-a head here, a broken body and three lumps of coal there-and one day he looked up from a piece of snow-colored rice paper and knew he was done. It was as simple as that: you bent over your work night after night, and one day you were done. Snow still lay in dirty streaks on the ground but clusters of yellow-green flowers hung from the sugar maples.

  Steven Millhauser

  Morning, Dirty, Flower

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• By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called “Carl Sagan Memorial Station.” But with all due respect to Carl, I can call it whatever the hell I want. I'm the King of Mars.

  Andy Weir

  Kings, Memorial, Want

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• The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.

  Karl Kraus

  Pride, Proud, Littles

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• There are screens at the gas station, there are screens at the shopping mall. And they all need content.

  Mark Burnett

  Shopping, Gas Stations, Needs

  "Reality Megaproducer Mark Burnett On NBC's "The Voice," Donald Trump And Sarah Palin" by Megan Angelo, www.businessinsider.com. April 26, 2011.

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• Like Michelangelo and Cellini, Florentines of every station are absorbed in acquiring real estate: a little apartment that can be rented to foreigners; a farm that will supply the owner with oil, wine, fruit, and flowers for the house.

  Mary McCarthy

  Real, Flower, Wine

  Mary McCarthy (2016). “The Stones of Florence”, p.222, Pickle Partners Publishing

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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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• When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all his luggage in a rucksack and looking so like a tramp that it needed a great deal of argument at the reception desk before he could claim a room.

  Paul Dirac

  Science, Biographies, Rooms

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• When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.

  Pat Benatar

  Girl, Play, Records

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• Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.

  Irving Azoff

  Radio, Chance, Stink

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• People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Country, Nice, Thinking

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• I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.

  Audrey Tautou

  Summer, Hate, Light

  "Here's looking at you, kid" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2001.

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• To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.

  Matt Taibbi

  Running, Wall, Oil

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• Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

  Alistair Cooke

  Trying, Identity, Different

  Alistair Cooke (2014). “America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Railroads, Today, Obsolete

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• Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those precincts, and in that station where Providence itself has cast their lot. Happy they who read the riddle without a weary world-search, or a lifetime spent in vain!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Happiness, Wish, Looks

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.606, Library of America

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• I wrote 'Turn Your Radio On' in 1937, and it was published in 1938. At this time radio was relatively new to the rural people, especially gospel music programs. I had become alert to the necessity of creating song titles, themes, and plots, and frequently people would call me and say, 'Turn your radio on, Albert, they're singing one of your songs on such-and-such a station.' It finally dawned on me to use their quote, 'Turn your radio on,' as a theme for a religious originated song, and this was the beginning of 'Turn Your Radio On' as we know it.

  Albert E. Brumley

  Song, Religious, Creating

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• Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Book, Fall

  "The Works of Samuel Johnson: Journey to the Hebrides. Tales of the imagination. Prayers and sermons".

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• In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities.

  Nemanja Vidic

  Soccer, Football, Rain

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• In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.

  Ruud Gullit

  Football, Talking, Television

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• Say that Congress legislates gasoline price controls that sets a maximum price of $1 a gallon. As sure as night follows day, there'd be long lines and gasoline shortages, just as there were in the 1970s. For the average consumer, a $1.60 a gallon selling price and no waiting lines is a darn sight cheaper than a controlled $1 a gallon price plus searching for a gasoline station that has gas and then waiting in line. If your average purchase is 10 gallons, and if an hour or so of your time is worth more that $6, the $1.60 a gallon free market price is cheaper.

  Walter E. Williams

  Night, Sight, Average

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• I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.

  Chris Isaak

  Hate, Two, Car

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• In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.

  George Washington

  Promise, Important, Purity

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1848). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.159

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• If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Retirement, Humble, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.

  Langston Hughes

  House, Police, Intolerance

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