Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway…

Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell…

— Anonymous

“I don't understand," says Gerald, alone in his third- class carriage, "how railway trains and magic can go on at the same time." And…

— E. Nesbit

I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to…

— Sydney Brenner

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

— E. M. Forster

Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in…

— Kató Lomb

Most of the writing that I do is a complete train of thought process. I'll just be walking down the street or sitting on…

— St. Lucia

What's interesting about Twitter is the unmediatedness of it, the directness of it. I'm on a train somewhere in New York and I send…

— Teju Cole

“The emergency services had not yet been organized. Rosine could go where she wished. Her high heels made her stumble in the darkness, over…

— Maurice Renard

Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow…

— Winston Churchill

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end…

— Robert Fripp

Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in…

— George Orwell

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants…

— John Moody

He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce.

— Fintan O'Toole

We must play music quietly, talk quietly, weep in private, because I am the all-powerful Zahir, who lays down the rules and determines the…

— Paulo Coelho

Man's endeavour to cross even the most difficult terrain with railway lines has produced some of the most stunning marvels of engineering of the…

— Prashant Bhushan