Train Quotes - Page 29

• I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Moving, Talking, Strange

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• The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.

  Ellen Goodman

  Children, Artist, Average

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Common, Antagonism

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• Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible!

  Henry James

  Simple, Race, Poetry

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• Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?

  Billy Wilder

  Eggs, Smell, Cologne

  "Fictional character: Tom Martin". "Arise, My Love", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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• An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles.... that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannotbe controverted.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Passion, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• Man's feeble race what ills await!
  Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain,
  Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train,
  And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!

  Thomas Gray

  Life, Pain, Fate

  Thomas Gray (1836). “The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).”, p.28

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• Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.

  David Hume

  Past, Experience, Principles

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1993). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.29, Hackett Publishing

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• Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, theclassroom teacher, and the janitor, all rolled into two. . . . There are few schools to train you for your job, and there is no general agreement on the curriculum. . . . You are on duty, or at least on call, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 18 years for each child you have. Besides that, you have to contend with an administration that has two leaders or bosses, whichever the case may be.

  Virginia Satir

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

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• In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run on schedule.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Running, Country, Schedules

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• Women on trains
  have a life
  that is exactly livable
  the precision of days flashing past

  Audre Lorde

  Travel, Past, Precision

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.389, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

  Audre Lorde

  Knowing, Triumph, Matter

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• I was just sitting on the train, just staring out the window at some cows. It was not the most inspiring subject. When all of a sudden the idea of Harry just appeared in my mind's eye.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Science, Ideas

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• When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brainthat is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious--to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.

  Edward T. Hall

  Exercise, Numbers, People

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• Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you've got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there's no greater feeling.

  Steven Spielberg

  Ideas, Race, Feelings

  "Steven Spielberg Talks His Holiday Double Features to Newsweek" by nne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2011.

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• The rumble of a subway train,
  the rattle of the taxis.

  Al Dubin

  Subway, Rumble, Taxi

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• I get it. Allah put me through it first so I could rise back up and help those around me. He trains you first. Then He sends the people to you and you to the people.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  People, Firsts, Helping

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• Feeding the media is like training a dog. You can't throw an entire steak at a dog to train it to sit. You have to give it little bits of steak over and over again until it learns.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Dog, Media, Giving

  Andrew Breitbart (2011). “Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• I once overheard the sweetest old woman behind me on a train tell her adorable old husband as he scoffed down a ham sandwich she had brought along, "If you ever yell at me to "stop bringing a ham sandwich with me every where we go" again? Next time I'm bringing a gun. And I'm blowing your God damn head off."

  Dane Cook

  Husband, Gun, Adorable

  "Dane Cook, Global Flavor". Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2009.

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• With each one, I love working on the story and the characters. The stunts, each time, we keep pushing ourselves harder and harder. And they are stunts, so there's always a danger in doing them, but fortunately, I have not had a problem. I have not missed a day of work, ever, in my career. I'm always there early. And I train very hard, and we prepare very carefully for each one.

  Tom Cruise

  Character, Careers, Stories

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• I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Dream, Kids, Impossible

  Source: bigthink.com

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• [How to train your dragon] is beautiful to look at and, again, those values that it contains about relationships, friendships, and bonding in the face of ignorance.

  Gerard Butler

  Beautiful, Ignorance, Dragons

  Source: collider.com

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• When I train, I erase all the limits and expectations of what I can do. I am powerful and anything is possible.

  Camille

  Powerful, Expectations, Crossfit

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• Nothing trains and teaches so powerfully as love. Love attracts. it does not coerce. If the aim of parents is to teach their children to love God they must show their love for Him by loving each other and loving the children.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Children, Parent, Doe

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• Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

  Thomas Mallon

  Phones, Cells, Cell Phone

  Interview with Shannon Powers, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

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