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
I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb… — Elie Wiesel 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
I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Street-casting - people like Katie Jarvis in 'Fish Tank,' spotted having a row with her boyfriend on a railway platform - has… — Joe Dempsie 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 flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting… — George McGovern 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
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
There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the… — David Frost Copy Share Image
You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the… — Jorge Luis Borges 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
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
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
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
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
I went to a restaurant the other day called 'Taste of the Raj.' The waiter hit me with a stick and got… — Harry Hill 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
Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936,… — Mae West 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
Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
“The term railway was to Victorian England what atomic or aerodynamic were to be after World War II, and network and virtual… — Richard Bookstaber 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
It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about Pacific 231 and… — Constant Lambert 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on… — Sonu Nigam 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 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/i/437/henry-adams-1542_bed_regarding-us-conquest-of-the-philippines_482855.png)
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