Rail Quotes

• Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

  A. A. Milne

  Life, Meaningful, Native American

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• Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Travel, Car, Towns

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• Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past
  Into different lives, or into any future;
  You are not the same people who left that station
  Or who will arrive at any terminus,
  While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Past, Escaping

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.170, Faber & Faber

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• My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it into lumber. And, you know, the mines needed things they call timbers and collars and so forth, and they used collars on the railroad track that they put the rails on. And he - that was his occupation, just a sawmill man and a logger.

  Ralph Stanley

  Father, Cutting, Men

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Travel, Infrastructure, Economist

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• Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

  Henry Fielding

  Envy, Would Be, Literature

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.338, Delphi Classics

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• All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

  Helen Thomas

  President, Turf, Presses

  "Hearst" Newspaper Column, October 15, 2003.

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• Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

  Dionysius Lardner

  Follow Your Dreams, Aviation, Speed

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• In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

  William Congreve

  Believe, Suffering, Criticism

  'The Old Bachelor' (1693) act 1, sc. 1

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• . . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first.

  Geneen Roth

  Inspiring, Journey, Somewhere Else

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• slept all night in the cedar grove, i was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin' for the holy grail, but there ain't nothin' sweeter than ridin' the rails

  Tom Waits

  Night, Men, Holy Grail

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• 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

  Travel, Adventure, Sunshine

  Howards End ch. 2 (1910)

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• Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Track, Revival

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The collected works of Watchman Nee”

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• Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.

  Roger Ebert

  Running, Lines, Film

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.23, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

  Herman Melville

  Running, Iron, Soul

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.161

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• A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.

  Amy Hempel

  Night, Sea, Land

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop their pants and moon passing passenger trains.

  James Frey

  Moon, July, Years

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• By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.

  Kevin Rudd

  Home, School, Cities

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.

  Lou Reed

  Running, Song, College

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• Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

  John Shelton Reed

  North Carolina, Barbecue, Thirds

  John Shelton Reed, Dale Volberg Reed (2016). “Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue”, p.12, UNC Press Books

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• I am going to give the American people a huge helping of unbridled truth: that we can't continue to spend what we are spending, that we can't avoid entitlement reform because we are afraid of third rail politics.

  Rick Perry

  People, Giving, Reform

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• I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.

  Susan Orlean

  Sports, Team, Believe

  "Football U." by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails.

  Paul Feig

  Simple, Awards, Years

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• They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.

  Chris Christie

  Health, Years, Reform

  Chris Christie's speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Gazzy: "What does that mean?" (points to metal plaque warning to stay off the third rail that said Stay off the third rail!) Fang: "It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn.

  James Patterson

  Running, Mean, Doe

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