Train Quotes - Page 28

• Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.

  Calvin Trillin

  Home, Next Day, Stories

  "This Story Just Won't Write" by Calvin Trillin, www.newyorker.com. March 19, 2013.

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• I love trains. I dont even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but theyre not.

  Tim Rice

  Stupid, Class, Names

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• Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.

  Marisha Pessl

  Past, Light, Color

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• I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.

  Vijender Singh

  Competition, Everyday, Hours

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• I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.

  Garry Disher

  Country, Book, House

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• I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.

  Sadie Jones

  Home, Writing, Reality

  "My space". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2008.

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• Train the right way. Help each other. It's a form of socialism without the politics.

  Bill Shankly

  Way, Helping, Socialism

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• Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.

  John Darnielle

  Men, Shopping, Missing

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• The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy mass that seemed to follow him: not hurrying in the wild chase with the others, but lingering sullenly behind, and gliding darkly and stealthily on. He often looked back at this, and, more than once, stopped to let it pass over; but, somehow, when he went forward again, it was still behind him, coming mournfully and slowly up, like a shadowy funeral train.

  Charles Dickens

  Dark, Night, Wind

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.482

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• "And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?"

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Teaching, Aunt

  Charles Dickens (2009). “David Copperfield”, p.395, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure, the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the great white North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.

  Christopher McCandless

  Spiritual, Home, Adventure

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• Take care of yourself. Eat well, rest, train hard and smart, make time to think and breathe. Be intentional with your time.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Smart, Thinking, Train Hard

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• We cannot train women and forget about the men. We should train men to know the potential of women.

  Sakena Yacoobi

  Men, Forget, He Man

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• I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

  Noah Baumbach

  Way, Actors

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• Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Atheism, Damnation

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.371, Courier Corporation

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• Without the church it's like having a boat without the rudder. You think you can do it on your own and this may sound pedestrian or trite but I'll equate it to this: all my life I've been involved with exercise but no matter how much - and I know a great deal about the body - you need help. You need a trainer. You need to go to a gym and you need to have the expertise and the guidance of someone else. You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and what the church is. The church is the gym of the soul.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Exercise, Thinking, Soul

  Source: www.dove.org

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• I have a lot of trouble forgiving myself for being so dumb... But yes, of course, the big generous compassionate view that you should take of yourself and of all events is: what a glorious circus train this has been, and what a wonderful messy parade, and all of those steps took me here, where I precisely need to be now, so God bless it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Views, Dumb, Forgiving

  Interview with Rachel Khong, therumpus.net. October 29, 2012.

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• The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.

  Colin Powell

  Jobs, Team, Winning

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• A lot of people think that as a player, during the lockout, you just have your whole day free. It's not like that - especially for me. I wake up everyday, train in the morning from 9 a.m. to about 2 p.m. Then I have a business meeting here, have to meet this person there, it's non-stop for me.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Morning, Player, Thinking

  "Talking with Our Mouths Full: Carmelo Anthony". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 11, 2011.

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• The main thing with triathlon is you've got to be as fit as you can. I train all year round.

  Alistair Brownlee

  Years, Fit, Triathlon

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I train for about 25 to 30 hours a week so I need to eat a lot. You just need to have a generally healthy diet. You need to be eating foods with lots of vitamins and minerals. You need to make sure you eat properly in order to give yourself the best chance of performing and recovering from training and competing.

  Alistair Brownlee

  Order, Vitamins And Minerals, Giving

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I train for about 30 hours a week. That's at least four hours every day. I swim at seven most mornings. It's got to be your life. You've got to fit everything around it. If that's all you know and it's what you love to do then it's got loads of positives as well.

  Alistair Brownlee

  Morning, Swim, Four

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.

  Taylor Swift

  Eye, Train Wrecks, Two

  "Why Taylor Swift Welcomed You to New York". Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 20, 2014.

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• Kung fu was made so the monks could train their bodies and move their bodies with strength, so they could be physical enough to gain mental enlightenment. Before that, they kept falling asleep when [masters] were trying to teach them.

  RZA

  Moving, Fall, Enlightenment

  Source: www.complex.com

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• To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Marriage, Divorce, Thinking

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