Life is like an old-time rail journey--delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There was an Old Man with an owl, Who continued to bother and howl; He sate on a rail, and imbibed bitter… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result. — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Mr. Xi is all-in on robotics, aerospace, high-speed rail, new-energy vehicles and advanced medical products. — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I was on set [Romeo + Juliet] maybe an hour for two days. It was in this big cathedral in Mexico City.… — Quindon Tarver Copy Share Image
If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China,… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and… — William Bell Copy Share Image
As a Fundamentalist I had discovered while I was in college that it is possible to dismiss the entire Church as having… — Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk Copy Share Image
I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's… — Craig Charles Copy Share Image
When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Human needs are served by a sustainable lifestyle, almost by definition, if humans include coming generations. And a shift to such technologies… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence… — Frank Wolf Copy Share Image
A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
It is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to Genesis 1… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The past gives you no justice. Sentences are passed. But that doesn't mean you get justice. You can stand there forever and… — Michael Hainey Copy Share Image
I am going to give the American people a huge helping of unbridled truth: that we can't continue to spend what we… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
As a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congressional district that counts on safe,… — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
No one is here," Char said. "You need resist temptation no longer." "Only if you slide too." "I'll go first so I… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
The job of conservatives is to keep the Republican Party driving on the right-hand side of the road. There are many ways… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one… — Jeffrey Donovan Copy Share Image
... not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then… — Tom A. Watson Copy Share Image
![“I was on set [Romeo + Juliet] maybe an hour for two days. It was in this big cathedral in Mexico City. I just remember being up there in the balcony, and it was myself up front and there was a choir behind me. In front of me was this rail, like this cement rail, and I was like, "Oh my gosh!"…” quote by Quindon Tarver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/240/quindon-tarver-26055_balconies_i-was-on-set-romeo-juliet-maybe-an-hour_388885.jpg)
