I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
My debut performance was on the railway tracks where I was asked to sing some Hindi songs in front of a mafia… — Kumar Sanu 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
I think democracy is not a destination. I don't think socialism is a railway station and if we catch the right train… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in… — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to… — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.… — Kató Lomb 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
It was a movie [The Railway Man] that stayed with me a long time. It's still one of the things I'm most… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only… — Walter de La Mare 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
We must play music quietly, talk quietly, weep in private, because I am the all-powerful Zahir, who lays down the rules and… — Paulo Coelho 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
Russia and China also cooperate in mechanical engineering, high-speed railway transportation, lumber processing, nuclear energy production and so on. We have built… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel… — Andrew Dominik Copy Share Image
In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway… — Nemanja Vidic Copy Share Image
I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three… — Eric Morecambe Copy Share Image
Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“. . . in the distance I hear a train rushing over the rails, but we are moving away from this place… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I was more interested in the older generation as they seemed to be the last remaining remnants of the British Raj -… — Karan Kapoor Copy Share Image
Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top… — George Bernard Shaw 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
Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually… — George Orwell 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
So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few… — Peter Roebuck Copy Share Image
I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time ,… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Technologies first equipped the territorial body with bridges, aqueducts, railways, highways, airports, etc. Now that the most powerful technologies are becoming tiny… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
We are expanding and improving the infrastructure of our relations. You must have heard about China's plans to participate in building a… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I attend many functions, go to different areas, you wouldn't have heard any political comment from me. If I go to a… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
![“It was a movie [The Railway Man] that stayed with me a long time. It's still one of the things I'm most proud of. I got to know the man that I was playing and unfortunately he passed away just before the movie came out. It's one that meant a huge amount to me, and one that I'm particularly proud of.” quote by Jeremy Irvine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dce/jeremy-irvine-13173_amount_it-was-a-movie-the-railway-man-that-stay_1193481.jpg)
![“[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the Philippines [...] We must slaughter a million or two foolish Malays in order to give them the comforts of flannel petticoats and electric railways.” quote by Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/437/henry-adams-1542_bed_regarding-us-conquest-of-the-philippines_482855.jpg)
