Train Quotes
1687 quotes by 1314 authors
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I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.
— David Mitchell
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who get off a…
— Ben Aaronovitch
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I don’t think I will get married,†Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.
— Diana Wynne Jones
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It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the…
— Fannie Flagg
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Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by…
— Dean Koontz
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Life is the train and not the station.
— Paulo Coelho
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September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That’s how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and next thing you…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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You are an... animal? A talking animal?" Without missing a beat, Teela said, "Of course not. She's much, much harder to train.
— Michelle Sagara
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I'll never get laid trying to keep you safe. You're a train wreck on steroids.
— Karen Marie Moning
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Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
— Noam Chomsky
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I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast…
— Charles Bukowski
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And the reason I am writing this on the back of a manila envelope now that they have left the train together is to tell…
— Billy Collins
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Then I'll come,' said Tessa, 'I've never been on a train.' Will threw up his hands. 'That's it? You're coming because you've never been on…
— Cassandra Clare
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You know how it's going to end, but instead of spoiling things, that somehow increases your fascination. It's like watching a kid run his electric…
— Stephen King
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The realization of what would happen next settled gradually over Harry in the long minutes, like softly falling snow. "I've got to go back, haven't…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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This train of thought was heading straight for Pity City, and she wanted to get off.
— Lauren Kate
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And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on…
— André Aciman
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I am a person who feels guilty for crimes I have not committed, or have not committed in years. The police search the train station…
— David Sedaris
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I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of:…
— Anna Funder
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