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93 Railway quotes by 82 unique authors

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy. — Joe Harris
So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something… — Robert Fripp
I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to… — Daphne Guinness
Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of the most exciting… — Evan Davis
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. — E. M. Forster
I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It… — Mikhail Kalashnikov
We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important… — Nick Lampson
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant. — Hilary Mantel
I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries,… — George McGovern
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the… — Rod Stewart
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development… — Dylan Thomas
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness… — H.G. Wells
Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would… — Lalu Prasad Yadav
My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that… — Lalu Prasad Yadav
It is all very wonderful and mysterious, as all life is apt to be if you go a little below the crust, and are not… — E. Nesbit
[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… — Julian Barnes
She had more curves than a scenic railway — P.G. Wodehouse
As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to… — Walter de La Mare
The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew… — Melina Marchetta
Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.' 'No fear of… — C.S. Lewis
And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station — Steven Morrissey
libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's… — Umberto Eco
Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer,… — Virginia Woolf

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