34 Railway Quotes for You to Enjoy

Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching. Timothy Morton

Future Past Everything Sliding Touching Over Another Past And Future Junction Where Railway

The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces. Haile Selassie

Government Practice Hazardous Arms Forces Intended Regards Use Transport Railway

I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets. George McGovern

I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. Natalie Dormer

Love Would Nepal Cross Over Go Railway

Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed. Richard Jefferies

Good Man Science Good Man Evil Power Enormous Telegraph Press Puts Advantage Equal Also Printing Printing Press Offers Hands Same Double-Edged Double-Edged Sword Moment Illustrated Railway Sword

There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway's hassling his mother. But he wasn't like that. Andrew Dominik

I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room... there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor. Anupam Kher

Dignity Human Being Money Pay Slept Spent Stations Hungry Compromised Had Hotel Hotel Room Days Because Felt Were Times Did Human Being Room Many Moments Actor Railway

At the zoo, people would gather around the railway to see the snakes being fed, and my brothers would walk around the group, taking from purses or bags or using a razor to cut pockets and take wallets. Apollo Robbins

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film. Dinah Sheridan

Drawer Relic Favourite Corsets Still Prized Children Wore Film Railway

I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap. Fergus Henderson

Good Think Chap Further Must Would Would-Be Kingdom Supper He Builds Go Gets Any Anyone Then Who Railway Bristol

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929. James Buchan

Great History Financial Fall Dust Markets Bits Bears Read Bulls Off Dutch Tulip Mania Crash Railway Speculation

Street-casting - people like Katie Jarvis in 'Fish Tank,' spotted having a row with her boyfriend on a railway platform - has helped make actors raise their game. They have to. Joe Dempsie

Game People Having Like Make Boyfriend Fish Tank Helped Katie Platform Actor Railway Her Row Raise

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government. John Moody

War Government Before Projected Civil Some Civil War Various Federal Federal Government Were Lines South Decade North Land Grants Railway Assisted

No restaurant, however brilliantly situated, can give you the constantly changing views that you can see from a railway. Revolving restaurants at the tops of tall buildings try to compete, but spinning around is no substitute for speeding along. Michael Portillo

You Try Changing Speeding Tops Restaurant Restaurants Constantly See Spinning Give Along Tall Around Buildings However Situated Revolving Substitute Views Railway Brilliantly Compete

My favourite British line is the West Highland line. It was built across moorland where no one had succeeded in building a road. So everything in that area is there because of the railway line. Michael Portillo

Building Everything Favourite Area Had No-One Road Because Built Line West Where Succeeded Across Railway British

They were both academics, but my dad had to get a job on the railway, and my mum had to get a job in the Post Office. It was pretty hard in terms of the racism they had to endure. Naveen Andrews

Racism Post Job Post Office Pretty Both Had Academics Terms Were Office Get Endure Hard Dad Mum Railway

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes. Nina Bawden

You Old Word Husband Unwanted Lost Shoes Victim Side Abandoned Had Like Track Idly Being Dislike Pair Railway

In the telecommunications, consumer products, and railway businesses, there are very real consequences if you don't meet the consumer's needs and desires. There are also substantive rewards for doing so, and especially for exceeding customer expectations. Oscar Munoz

Needs You Consequences Meet Telecommunications Exceeding Consumer Also Real Doing Very Expectations Rewards Substantive Customer Products Businesses Railway Desires

Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite. Paul Theroux

Needs Corruption Spend Bite Television Angle Rattling Excitement Days Talking Sound Sound Bite Five Train Endlessly Cannot Film Railway

Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943. Richard Flanagan

I'm proud to be a railway modeler. Rod Stewart

Proud Railway

I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine. Rod Stewart

Music Me Magazine More Proud Cover Than Model Means Railway

I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on railway platforms when he came to Mumbai for the first time to become a film singer. My parents were both singers; they sang together and fell in love due to their singing. Sonu Nigam

Love Time Together Father Parents First Singing Become Living Slept Born Brought Delhi Both Had He Fell Singer Singers First Time Due Came Were Been Up Literally Sang Platforms Film Mumbai Railway

'Homeward Bound.' I find myself listening to that tune a lot when I'm traveling. Sitting in a railway station, wanting to go home, carrying all your stuff with you. Steven Hall

Myself Home You Listening Station Carrying Find Bound Stuff Go Go Home Lot Sitting Wanting Tune Your Traveling Railway

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