Trains Quotes · Page 3

I have liked trains since I was a boy, although I was never a train-spotter.

— Michael Portillo

“What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.”

— Diane Samuels

Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

— Paul Theroux

Planes don't fly, trains don't run, banks don't operate without much of what IBM does.

— Ginni Rometty

My highest value is not that the trains are on time. I want to be free.

— Sherry Turkle

“On those trains you’ll be taking across Europe. A book light always comes in handy.”

— Meg Cabot

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past

— Audre Lorde

Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?

— Billy Wilder

I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create…

— Sal Albanese

I love trains. It's the only way to travel anymore where it doesn't involve a TSA agent slowly tracing the curve of…

— Bill Maher

For me, when I was a kid, all I watched was ADCC, I'm sure it's the same for everyone that trains jiu…

— Dillon Danis

We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three…

— James Lipton

“It seems to me that the further East you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in…

— Bram Stoker

“Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe…

— Truman Capote

Do people who wave at trains Wave at the driver, or at the train itself? Or, do people who wave at trains…

— Roger McGough

The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were…

— D. H. Lawrence

I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector…

— Walter Murch

Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations.…

— Aldous Huxley

“Temple of the Rat King. Ark of the Soot God. Sphincter of Hades. Yes, King's Cross Station, where, according to Knuckle Sandwich…

— David Mitchell

“It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at…

— Roman Payne

“The great trains are going out all over Europe, one by one, but still, three times a week, the Orient Express thunders…

— Ian Fleming

“Corner Seat Suspended in a moving night The face in the reflection train Looks at first sight as self-assured As your own…

— Louis MacNeice

“He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one…

— Jamie Weise

“It’s a lot easier to blow up trains than to make them run on time.”

— Max Brooks

Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.

— Terry Pratchett

It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.

— Paul Theroux

I travel a lot with work... to and from Cornwall and Bristol, so I find myself on lots of trains.

— Eleanor Tomlinson

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

— George H. W. Bush

“Trains tap into some deep American collective memory.”

— Dana Frank

I really liked John Candy in 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles.' He was so good in that movie.

— Bill Hader

Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.

— Daisy Whitney

The Royal Academy of Dance is an institution that trains to a very high standard.

— Darcey Bussell

The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same way one trains one's body?

— Stefan Sagmeister

I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.

— Alan Taylor

The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918

— William Henry Vanderbilt

I'm totally dedicated to training no one trains harder than I do.

— Bruno Sammartino

They're called Virgin Trains because they don't go all the way.

— Simon Hoggart

“But, truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.”

— Paul Theroux

“Through the dark night chasing the morning light That headlight streaming white through the night”

— Richard L. Ratliff