Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to… — Dinah Sheridan 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
“. . . in the distance I hear a train rushing over the rails, but we are moving away from this place… — Veronica Roth 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
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
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
You may think it odd that there were three men to look after one tiny station, but the people who ran the… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I used to go wandering - disused railway-lines, old barns, dry-stone walls, strangely Pre-Raphaelite copses - it's… — Suhayl Saadi 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
Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning… — Arthur Guiterman 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
It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Even in downtown office areas, people would probably beg for a shuttle bus service to ferry them swiftly to the railway stations… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a… — Max Nordau 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
[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I… — Lalu Prasad Yadav Copy Share Image
One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
[The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for… — William Henry Jackson Copy Share Image
We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of… — Nick Lampson Copy Share Image
The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
'Homeward Bound.' I find myself listening to that tune a lot when I'm traveling. Sitting in a railway station, wanting to go… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind… — Richard Flanagan 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
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
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
There's actually an awful lot of mathematics that goes into designing a railway, keeping it running, making sure everything runs optimally. Every… — Hannah Fry 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
Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your… — Paul Theroux 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
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 like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension… — Jeanette Winterson 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
![“[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together.” quote by Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0e/julian-barnes-522_flattered_flaubert-didn-t-just-hate-the-railway-as_2399076.png)
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