Quote by Virginia Woolf

“We have affairs in different places; and hence railways were invented. Railways separated us infallibly from our friends; and so telegraphs were made that…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Direction is so much more important than speed. Many are going nowhere fast.”

— Germany Kent

“...all the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel -- the welcoming hand of the…

— Robert Edison Fulton Jr

“Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is.”

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Sam Starbuck

“We're like old acquaintances on trains going in different directions.”

— Stephen King

“It is hard to make railroading pleasant in any country. It is too tedious.”

— Mark Twain

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

— Paul Theroux

“There was an inevitability about the road towards each other which encouraged meandering along the route.”

— Zadie Smith

“Speed is useless without direction. So is intellect.”

— Daniel Wieser

“The fact about contemporaries is that they're doing the same thing on another railway line: one resents their distracting one, flashing past, the wrong…

— Virginia Woolf

“You can hear the train in those lines; you can feel its rocking motion.”

— Alexander McCall Smith