In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure. — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
“And I said, “I needed to sit down and be quiet and think.” And he said, “OK, let’s keep it simple. What… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head… — Fintan O'Toole Copy Share Image
libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The novel begins in a railway station, a locomotive huffs, steam from a piston covers the opening of the chapter, a cloud… — Italo Calvino 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 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
So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the… — Robert Fripp 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
“soon as I was old enough, I found myself a holiday job as errand boy to earn some money. My first job… — Walter Edney Copy Share Image
“I once sat down on a bench at Cape Town railway station where the notice "Whites Only" was obscured. A few moments… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
Why do we need Close Friends ? --> To pick us frm Railway Station at 2 a.m. --> To kick you at… — Ritu Ghatourey 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
“Doncaster Railway Station, East Coast Line. Tuesday 5pm. Gil was halfway between London and Newcastle when a text came through on her… — J. Jackson Bentley Copy Share Image
I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up… — Robert Benchley 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
“[Human lives] are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual tranforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Her name was Rebecca, or Becky, or Bex. She'd been wearing a white hooded top with a navy-blue body-warmer. She would be… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
“One incident preserved by General Ismay in an apocryphal and somewhat lively form may be allowed to lighten the narrative. His orderly,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“I opened the bag and packed the boots in; and then, just as I was going to close it, a horrible idea… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Kumiko and I would visit their home and have dinner with them twice a month with mechanical regularity. This was a truly… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Venice appeared to me as in a recurring dream, a place once visited and now fixed in memory like images on a… — Gary Inbinder Copy Share Image
“They [human lives] are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitious occurrence (Beethoven’s music, death… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“It is wrong, then, to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences (like the meeting of Anna, Vronsky, the railway… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Mathura railway station should be a blend of heritage look with modernisation like escalator and better waiting rooms for general class passengers.… — Hema Malini 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
Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Later that month, Tesla arrived at the Straasbourg railway station to travel to the harbor and board the ocean liner Saturnia, which… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
“More than just the ship,’ said the Doctor. He indicated the burnt ends of the tangled fibres. ‘There was enough thermal energy… — Gareth Roberts Copy Share Image
The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
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