What can you say about the family who is suing the railroad after their drunk son was killed walking on the tracks?… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Shall the railroads govern the country, or shall the people govern the railroads? Shall the interest of railroad kings be chieflyregarded, or… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to… — Les Paul Copy Share Image
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Disney World?” Ari felt like his head was about to explode. “Disney World?” His gravelly voice rose into a harsh shriek. “They’re… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
That's our mirror. Every dip, every crash, every bubble that's burst, a testament to our brilliant stupidity. This one gave us the… — Lucy Prebble Copy Share Image
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky,… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Unable to maintain their government-granted monopoly, the powerful railroad interests turned to government to do the regulating and price-fixing which they were… — Dan Smoot Copy Share Image
It was the White Man who spanned the continents of the world with railroads and super highways and electrical power lines. It… — Ben Klassen Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I come from an activist mother, so I didn't have to rely on the history books. The history books teach us… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and… — John Moody Copy Share Image
Separation of the Church and State is like a railroad track. It cannot be close to one another, neither can it be… — Jaime Sin Copy Share Image
And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
We handed the most important belongings of our people - the railroads and the banks - to aliens who 2000 years ago… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
“Lack of harmony and cooperation between the railroad management and the workers has made it necessary for the railroads to increase their… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters...part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
I love what Chris & Katy are bringing to the table with Coal Train Railroad. It makes ME feel like a kid… — Jeff Coffin Copy Share Image
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is… — Ivy Lee Copy Share Image
I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell?divine as the vale of Tempe; you might have seen the gods there morning… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even… — John Moody Copy Share Image
From its founding, [Nevada] has always struggled to belong. It has had a series of masters--the mining industry, the railroads, the federal… — Hal Rothman Copy Share Image
Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water… — Walter Chrysler Copy Share Image
Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which… — James Oliver Curwood Copy Share Image
Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine… — Otto Schily Copy Share Image
![“[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other…” quote by Charles Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7e8/charles-kingsley-1896_character_at-the-end-of-the-story-its-main-charact_1140686.jpg)
![“And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly and making a point in a way that you don't really know that this point is going to be made through several examples, and there will be not be a break in the speaking…” quote by Meryl Streep](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/197/meryl-streep-1078_break_and-she-margaret-thatcher-also-had-a-sor_2115768.jpg)
![“From its founding, [Nevada] has always struggled to belong. It has had a series of masters--the mining industry, the railroads, the federal government, and now gaming and tourism--that have driven the state's economy and compelled its direction.” quote by Hal Rothman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc4/hal-rothman-41335_compelled_from-its-founding-nevada-has-always-stru_2725387.jpg)
