Trains Quotes · Page 3

“Trains aren't a problem." "You turn into mist?" "No, I step out of the way.”

— Tanya Huff

Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.

— Daisy Whitney

I really liked John Candy in 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles.' He was so good in that movie.

— Bill Hader

“Trains tap into some deep American collective memory.”

— Dana Frank

I'm totally dedicated to training no one trains harder than I do.

— Bruno Sammartino

“But, truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.”

— Paul Theroux

They're called Virgin Trains because they don't go all the way.

— Simon Hoggart

Everybody values their train, but they want to zero-out other people's trains.

— Bob Walker

I think one reason, obviously, that I spend so much time in one place is that I've been lucky enough to travel…

— Pico Iyer

When I was growing up, and periodically going to India to visit my grandmother, my classmates would often ask me about the…

— Nish Kumar

There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the romantic feeling of…

— Rosario Dawson

“Men set out on their way in express trains, but they do not know what they are looking for. Then they rush…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas…

— Alan Huffman

There'll be trains of blossoms. There'll be trains of music. There'll be trains of trust. Trains of goldenust.

— Laura Nyro

My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the…

— Alan Huffman

It's like a prize fighter. He knows he has a fight coming up, so he gets in the gym and trains. So…

— Slim Whitman

I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' that…

— Joel Edgerton

It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and…

— David Baldacci

There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death. Each of us rides them both. To…

— August Wilson

I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart…

— Sadie Jones

“Trains are beautiful. They take people to places they've never been, faster than they could ever go themselves. Everyone who works on…

— Sam Starbuck

Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my…

— Esmeralda Santiago

I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Monorail tracks are prefabricated and can be erected relatively quickly: Simply dig a hole every 120 feet or so, plop down a…

— Brendan I. Koerner

“Through the dark night chasing the morning light That headlight streaming white through the night”

— Richard L. Ratliff

The Royal Academy of Dance is an institution that trains to a very high standard.

— Darcey Bussell

The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918

— William Henry Vanderbilt

I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.

— Alan Taylor

The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same way one trains one's body?

— Stefan Sagmeister

Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

— Paul Theroux

My highest value is not that the trains are on time. I want to be free.

— Sherry Turkle

Planes don't fly, trains don't run, banks don't operate without much of what IBM does.

— Ginni Rometty

“What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.”

— Diane Samuels

It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.

— Paul Theroux

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

— George H. W. Bush

I travel a lot with work... to and from Cornwall and Bristol, so I find myself on lots of trains.

— Eleanor Tomlinson

“On those trains you’ll be taking across Europe. A book light always comes in handy.”

— Meg Cabot

Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.

— Terry Pratchett

Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?

— Billy Wilder

“It’s a lot easier to blow up trains than to make them run on time.”

— Max Brooks