Train Quotes - Page 2

• Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

  Joanne Harris

  People, Waiting, Sitting

  Joanne Harris (2012). “Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)”, p.197, Random House

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• Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Leadership, Effectiveness

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• Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Humor

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

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• Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

  E. M. Forster

  Howards End, Glorious, Gates

  Howards End ch. 2 (1910)

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• There's always light after the dark. You have to go through that dark place to get to it, but it's there, waiting for you. It's like riding on a train through a dark tunnel. If you get so scared you jump off in the middle of the ride, then you're there, in the tunnel, stuck in the dark. You have to ride the train all the way to the end of the ride.

  Han Nolan

  Dark, Tunnels, Light

  Han Nolan (2014). “Dancing on the Edge”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

  Joan Rivers

  Humor, Las Vegas, Tunnels

  Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

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• She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 13, 2011

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• Waiting for inspiration is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.

  Leigh Michaels

  Inspiration, Airports, Waiting

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• If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

  Bernard Malamud

  Track, Stations, Ifs

  Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (2003). “Dubin's Lives: A Novel”, p.87, Macmillan

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• Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Running, Ideas, Missing

  "This column will change your life: do you own gadgets - or do they own you?" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2013.

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• Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem.

  Duke Ellington

  Travel, Boards, Sugar

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• Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

  Anna Quindlen

  Travel, Book, Reading

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.70, Ballantine Books

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• What do you have to do? Pack your bags, Go to the station without them, Catch the train, And leave your self behind.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Self, Bags, Packs

  Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Open Secret”, p.212, Sentient Publications

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• Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.

  David Mamet

  Doe, Profession

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.

  Asger Jorn

  Train Of Thought, Creative, Unexpected

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• The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he is meant to be lost. It is another world, which has been prepared especially for him. And never again, for all eternity, will the train stop at this station to take him back to the world he came from.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cat, Men, World

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 30, 2015

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• When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

  Karl Marx

  Fall, Curves

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• You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.

  Shawn Achor

  Inspirational, Fitness, Work Out

  FaceBook post by Shawn Achor from May 23, 2014

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• [Mickey Mouse] He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

  Walt Disney

  Brother, Business, Years

  "A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

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• Train children to bear responsibility as you would train them to build muscle. Add what they can handle, then prepare them for more.

  Wes Fesler

  Children, Responsibility, Add

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• We must train ourselves in courage and generosity.

  Roger Caillois

  Generosity

  Roger Caillois, Claudine Frank, Camille Naish (2003). “The edge of surrealism: a Roger Caillois reader”, Duke University Press Books

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• Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold’s - the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train - there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Girl, Party, California

  "The Terminator As Predator? A Look at Arnold on Sex, Abuse, Drugs, & Women". www.democracynow.org. August 29, 2003.

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• For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before – the succession and superimposition of views, the unfolding of landscape in flickering surfaces as one was carried swiftly past it, and an exaggerated feeling of relative motion (the poplars nearby seeming to move faster than the church spire across the field) due to parallax. The view from the train was not the view from the horse. It compressed more motifs into the same time. Conversely, it left less time in which to dwell on any one thing.

  Robert Hughes

  Horse, Moving, Past

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• A train will bring you back to the place you came from, but it will not return you home.

  Jedediah Berry

  Home, Return

  Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.213, Penguin

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