Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What the railroads lack is not opportunity but some of the managerial imaginativeness and audacity that made them great.” — Harvard Business School Press Copy Share Image
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the… — John Moody Copy Share Image
If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality. — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
It was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions, and I made them and considered them good… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief… — John Moody Copy Share Image
Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond, Canada was certainly an additional option for the… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go… — Jack London Copy Share Image
When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Unable to maintain their government-granted monopoly, the powerful railroad interests turned to government to do the regulating and price-fixing which they were… — Dan Smoot Copy Share Image
“When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky,… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
That's our mirror. Every dip, every crash, every bubble that's burst, a testament to our brilliant stupidity. This one gave us the… — Lucy Prebble Copy Share Image
If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. "We didn't lack for light when… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about… — Marc Singer Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Way over on the railroad, Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together, Every scrapbook stuck with glue, And I'll stand beside… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The Atman alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market. — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey! — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not… — Betty White Copy Share Image
I did as much as I could: raising chickens, pushing an ice-cream cart, bagging walnuts, driving a tractor on a beet farm,… — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a… — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
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