Train Quotes - Page 27

• I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a small but heady draught. They are perfect reading material for the bus or train or for a lunchtime break. Everything extraneous has been strained off by the author. The best short stories pack the heft of any novel, yet resonate like poetry.

  Ian Rankin

  Short Love, Reading, Writing

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• We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children.

  Robert Stack

  Children, Support, Had Enough

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• I love trains. It's the only way to travel anymore where it doesn't involve a TSA agent slowly tracing the curve of my inner thigh.

  Bill Maher

  Curves, Tsa, Agents

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• Why are the patriots the ones who don't want to spend money on trains?

  Bill Maher

  Want, Patriot

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• I'd have to say Steven Gerrard has been the biggest influence in my career so far. I watched him when I was younger and then to go and play and train with him every day is massive for me, and still is now.

  Jordan Henderson

  Play, Careers, Influence

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• Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.

  Federico Fellini

  People, Departure, Duty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.

  Monte Irvin

  Baseball, Should Have, Play

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• My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word snob comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.

  Frank Crowninshield

  Country, Smart, Book

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• Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

  Paul Theroux

  Good Night, Sleep, Player

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• USA does such a great job sort of branding and packaging their shows and you know, they move and they sort of you got to keep up, you've really got to keep up with the train.

  James Roday

  Jobs, Moving, Usa

  Source: movieweb.com

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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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• Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Exercise, Meditation, Mind

  Sharon Salzberg (2013). “Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace”, p.13, Workman Publishing

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• So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

  Paul Theroux

  Men, Istanbul, Sight

  Paul Theroux (1976). “The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia”

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• Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.

  Roger Ebert

  Running, Lines, Film

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.23, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!

  Bram Stoker

  Children, Home, Land

  Bram Stoker (2006). “Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.54, Prestwick House Inc

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• Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children.

  Iris Murdoch

  Children, Dirty, Anxiety

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.69, Penguin

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• You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

  Ken Robinson

  Athlete, Creative, Mind

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• The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Boys, Ideas, What If

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• If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.

  Pep Guardiola

  Play, Training, Way

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• Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Athlete, Class, Training

  "Five minutes with Olympic gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee". Chicago Tribune Interview, www.chicagotribune.com. April 25, 2012.

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• A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I wanted to disappear. I wanted a different history and geography. In rhythm with the wheels I said I want I want I want I want I stayed on the train.

  Lewis Nordan

  Jumping, Different, Want

  Lewis Nordan (1992). “Music of the Swamp”, Algonquin Books

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• I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

  Dermot Healy

  Home, Writing, People

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• In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and Im never going to break the world record for the five miles. Its partly genetics; Im just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Running, Cutting, Mind

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• The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same way one trains ones body?

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Mind, Answers, Body

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• Leadership is hard to train on.

  Ben Horowitz

  Hard

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