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
It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy… — George Mikes 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
It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Even in downtown office areas, people would probably beg for a shuttle bus service to ferry them swiftly to the railway stations… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three… — Eric Morecambe Copy Share Image
In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway… — Nemanja Vidic Copy Share Image
Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.… — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It was a movie [The Railway Man] that stayed with me a long time. It's still one of the things I'm most… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Houses were knocked down; streets broken through and stopped; deep pits and trenches dug in the ground; enormous heaps of earth and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the… — Arthur Smith 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
[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
It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about Pacific 231 and… — Constant Lambert 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
On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few… — Peter Roebuck Copy Share Image
I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time ,… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Technologies first equipped the territorial body with bridges, aqueducts, railways, highways, airports, etc. Now that the most powerful technologies are becoming tiny… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“The term railway was to Victorian England what atomic or aerodynamic were to be after World War II, and network and virtual… — Richard Bookstaber Copy Share Image
Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning… — Arthur Guiterman Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I used to go wandering - disused railway-lines, old barns, dry-stone walls, strangely Pre-Raphaelite copses - it's… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
We are expanding and improving the infrastructure of our relations. You must have heard about China's plans to participate in building a… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the… — David Frost Copy Share Image
I attend many functions, go to different areas, you wouldn't have heard any political comment from me. If I go to a… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
![“It was a movie [The Railway Man] that stayed with me a long time. It's still one of the things I'm most proud of. I got to know the man that I was playing and unfortunately he passed away just before the movie came out. It's one that meant a huge amount to me, and one that I'm particularly proud of.” quote by Jeremy Irvine](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dce/jeremy-irvine-13173_amount_it-was-a-movie-the-railway-man-that-stay_1193481.jpg)
![“[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)
![“[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)
