Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Who doesn't like playing with a railway? I think we've all got Thomas the Tank Engine in our blood. — Dick Strawbridge Copy Share Image
But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
I traveled to many countries when I played. But wherever I went, it was a journey between an airport, a hotel, a… — Zico Copy Share Image
I nearly adopted a girl once. I went to an orphanage and found this girl called Vijaya, who was abandoned at the… — Simi Garewal Copy Share Image
The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy. — Joe Harris Copy Share Image
My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the… — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Houses were knocked down; streets broken through and stopped; deep pits and trenches dug in the ground; enormous heaps of earth and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna… — Tariq Anwar Copy Share Image
I was warned by the private sector that we would fail and would fail badly. 'The state can't run a railway,' I… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also… — Dave Calhoun Copy Share Image
In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, the will towards a… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the… — William Topaz McGonagall Copy Share Image
I have built already seven very large railway stations: one in Italy; two in Belgium; and in France, and in Switzerland, in… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image