Train Quotes

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Sir if I was your daughter I would wait until this train started again and throw myself in front of it! — Kirby Larson
From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good luck or bad… — Milan Kundera
That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there… — Charles Bukowski
Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat… — Nicole Krauss
Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I… — Paul Theroux
It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the… — Bernhard Schlink
But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front… — Jodi Picoult
O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sisterâ€™s flood of tears. — William Shakespeare
...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely… — Virginia Woolf
When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the people… — Patricia McCormick
In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train. — Carrie Fisher
Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to… — Christopher McDougall
If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost… — China Mieville
She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your… — Ann-Marie MacDonald
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 the people they… — David Baldacci
The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca. — Anthony Bourdain
Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a… — Haruki Murakami
While I canâ€™t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet… — Jeanette Winterson
Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld… — Soren Kierkegaard
I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and… — Helen DeWitt

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