Train Quotes - Page 36

• Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

  John Hegley

  Writing, May, Remember

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• Everyone's life is a train wreck. Your life happens to be a high-class train wreck.

  Tyne Daly

  Class, Train Wrecks, Life Is

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• If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs. To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Lying, Healing, Fighting

  Sinclair Lewis (1956). “Dodsworth”

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• Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer.

  Harry S. Truman

  Engineers

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

  Ameen Rihani

  Men, Thinking, Self

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• I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.

  Serena Williams

  Track, Metaphor, Middle

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• A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six times, he becomes immortal. Randall Jarrell said it and he's right.

  James Dickey

  Storm, Lightning, Lucky

  James Dickey, Ronald Baughman (1989). “The voiced connections of James Dickey: interviews and conversations”, Univ of South Carolina Pr

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• I think it's important to cross train. Surfing is a good cross training sport for your shoulders. I don't think I know of any other football player who does it, who can go and paddle out past the sets.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Football, Past

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I never really got into marketing. I went to school for it, but never pursued it once I got out. Instead, I went to Europe for about two months, just traveling around in youth hostels and Eurail trains with my friends.

  Kevin Nealon

  School, Europe, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you believe in god, it's much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set in motion this long train of activities that eventually resulted in us. I think that's so much more satisfying, more thrilling, than the idea that it was all done in seven days.

  Bill Bryson

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  "Bill Bryson answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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• Unfortunately, I don't train enough on an everyday basis to be a black belt, but if I put my mind to it I think I could definitely move very quickly in that world.

  Milla Jovovich

  Moving, Thinking, Black

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 2, 2009.

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• Like the dog who barks at the train, I bark not because I expect the train to stop, but because I am a dog.

  Dwight Longenecker

  Dog, Bark

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• The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  School, Cat, Corporations

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• There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs."

  Jeff Merkley

  Thug, Police, Corruption

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Universal WiFi. Without a doubt. I am done with being on the train, not having internet. Or having spotty coverage. It's a fundamental need at this point. It's the frickin' information age! It should be like air! And it doesn't have to be free. I'm a believer in paying for value. Just having it as an option.

  Maria Popova

  Air, Doubt, Age

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember there were.

  William T. Vollmann

  Stars, Sky, Looks

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going to go to Roseville. We got off it and got on another train. And we got to Roseville, and it takes hours to get through that yard. It's really big. So we ended up just coming back here. It's like fishing or hunting. You can't always come back with something.

  William T. Vollmann

  Hunting, Fishing, Yards

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to some of the best schools in this country - schools that train you how to run the political paradigm, not challenge it. The leaders of the Black Power Movement were challenging that paradigm.

  Danny Glover

  Running, Country, School

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. February 8, 2012.

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• I'm not afraid to make decisions. One of my friends said... we were talking about movies. It's really just a series of decisions you make. They said, "Tim Miller: frequently wrong, but never in doubt." I don't know that I'm making the right ones, but I'm not afraid to make them. That keeps the train moving forward.

  Timothy Miller

  Moving, Decisions You Make, Talking

  "Exclusive: Tim Miller Talks Deadpool Development & X-Men Universe". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. November 5, 2015.

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• During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player
  extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His
  favorite time of day is half past six in the evening, when he meets Mrs. Marsden's train at the
  station, as the latter returns from her day in London. On Sunday afternoons, rain or shine,
  Professor and Mrs. Marsden take a walk along The Backs, and treasure growing old
  together.

  Sherry Thomas

  Rain, Sunday, Player

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• If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, People, Track

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• Look in every city or any town. Travel by foot, or train or plane. Do not settle until there is love. For there, there will be the address of your happiness.

  David Paul

  Cities, Feet, Looks

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• Most new trainers agonize over the perfect workout, over-train virtually everyone and are the crazy purist idiots who embarrass themselves at restaurants trying to impress everyone with how clean they eat.

  Dan John

  Workout, Crazy, Perfect

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• Birdscapes moves rather like those swallows, dipping and swerving to pick up all sorts of items of interest. Mynott tells plenty of good birding tales, but these serve mainly to set off trains of reflection. . . . Reading Birdscapes is like going birding with a learned, witty, and somewhat irreverent companion who isn't satisfied just to check things off. . . . [D]elightful to read on a journey or a housebound day, and [opens] fascinating new horizons for anyone who wants to enlarge his or her interest in birds.

  Robert O. Paxton

  Witty, Moving, Reading

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• When you're in a train and it breaks down, well, there you is. But when you're in a plane and it breaks down, there you AIN'T.

  Amy Hill Hearth

  Breaking Down, Planes, Wells

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.154, Kodansha America

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