Faster than a Locomotive

“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose…

— Denis Johnson

The best way to see a country is from the footplate of a locomotive.

— George Dow

We used to take a used locomotive engine, tear it down, rebuild it, and put it back out there. We treated all the engines…

— Jamie S. Miller

When I came on 'The West Wing,' I jumped onto something that was already a steaming locomotive of a hit. It was very exciting…

— Joshua Malina

In January 2012, Caterpillar locked out union workers at a locomotive factory in Ontario after they rejected a pay cut of about 50 percent;…

— Mina Kimes

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

— John Moody

“I am fond of lovely old words like 'locomotive'.”

— Tove Jansson

“A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive.”

— Ivor A. Richards

I am a runaway locomotive outta my one-track mind.

— Anonymous

One of my earliest memories of something that caught my attention was of a steam locomotive. I guess mainly because they have so many…

— Jim Peebles

To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression…

— Arthur Honegger

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

— Ian Fleming

I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels like when…

— Kevin Spacey

“They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the catwalk. Rust…

— Cormac McCarthy

A lot of things work better in a locomotive.

— P. J. O'Rourke