Locomotives Quote by P. J. O'Rourke Download Open image “A lot of things work better in a locomotive.” — P. J. O'Rourke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Locomotives
I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're built like a freight train, you can't drive around like a Volkswagen. — Clark Gillies Copy Share Image
My brother and I used to try to derail a train over and over again. We didn't know any better. — Carolyn Meinel Copy Share Image
Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive. — John Moody Copy Share Image
What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
Some people are born to trains, and some have trains thrust upon them. Fortunately, I can be included in this latter category. — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
When different generations of cars are combined into one train, it messes with the loudspeaker system. — Robert James Thomson Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories of something that caught my attention was of a steam locomotive. I guess mainly because they have so many… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
Wagon is the bread-earning horse of the Railways. Load it adequately. Make it run and don't stable it. — Lalu Prasad Yadav Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share
The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available. Western civilization not only provides a bit of life, a pinch of liberty and the occasional pursuance of happiness, it's also the only thing that's ever tried to. Our civilization is the first in history… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share
My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of a mathematical acceleration of rhythm, while the movement itself slowed . I first called this piece Mouvement symphonique. On reflection I found that a bit colorless. Suddenly, a rather romantic image crossed my mind, and… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share
Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant whistle of locomotives pounding through the night, by the caravans leaving on the Golden Road to Samarkand, by quinqueremes of Nineveh from distant Ophir . . . Our grandchildren will likewise have their inspiration-among the equatorial… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with… — O. Winston Link Copy Share Image
There's nothing inherently lame about electricity. I've got a basement full of power tools that all operate with electricity, and they're manly items. And… — P. J. O'Rourke 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 new style… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
“Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects - inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too banal to add anything to our experience of life. This is unfortunate, as one cannot grow except by having one’s spirit greatly stirred; and the spirit cannot be greatly stirred by spiritless things. Much of our very life… — K.J. Bishop Copy Share
It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
