The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in… — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think democracy is not a destination. I don't think socialism is a railway station and if we catch the right train… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to… — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results.… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris] [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
My debut performance was on the railway tracks where I was asked to sing some Hindi songs in front of a mafia… — Kumar Sanu Copy Share Image
Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
I was warned by the private sector that we would fail and would fail badly. 'The state can't run a railway,' I… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I went to a restaurant the other day called 'Taste of the Raj.' The waiter hit me with a stick and got… — Harry Hill Copy Share Image
I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936,… — Mae West Copy Share Image
My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Street-casting - people like Katie Jarvis in 'Fish Tank,' spotted having a row with her boyfriend on a railway platform - has… — Joe Dempsie Copy Share Image
I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I… — Lalu Prasad Yadav Copy Share Image
[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
[The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for… — William Henry Jackson Copy Share Image
One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
“. . . in the distance I hear a train rushing over the rails, but we are moving away from this place… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to… — Dinah Sheridan Copy Share Image
I was more interested in the older generation as they seemed to be the last remaining remnants of the British Raj -… — Karan Kapoor Copy Share Image
![“[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris] [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power; yet they, and all other artists, constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in…” quote by Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/caa/henry-adams-1542_art_after-viewing-the-palace-of-electricity_2917374.jpg)
![“[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the Philippines [...] We must slaughter a million or two foolish Malays in order to give them the comforts of flannel petticoats and electric railways.” quote by Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/437/henry-adams-1542_bed_regarding-us-conquest-of-the-philippines_482855.png)
![“[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together.” quote by Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d0e/julian-barnes-522_flattered_flaubert-didn-t-just-hate-the-railway-as_2399076.png)
![“[The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for me, sooner or later I would have been out on the grade with my cameras.” quote by William Henry Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/aa7/william-henry-jackson-63863_building_the-building-of-the-transcontinental-rai_2490681.jpg)
