Train Quotes - Page 15

• What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely....Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  People, Profound, Soul

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• I train, for me, very smartly. I don't train heavy, I do a lot of isometrics.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Heavy, Very Smart

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• Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break the pre- off the -dictable, unsettle the suburbs of your routine sentiments, and rattle the tracks of your trains of thoughts.

  Heather McHugh

  Train Of Thought, Track, Trying

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• I want to see how far I can train. I have to see how far my body will go.

  Michelle Kwan

  Body, Want, I Can

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

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• I train six days a week for four to five hours a day. I like to keep the same schedule when I'm in camp for every fight.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Fighting, Schedules, Four

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• Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train to Lisbon is a very long, ambitious book that's feverishly overwritten. (...) Think of W.G. Sebald recast for the mass market: stripped of nuance, cooked at high temperature and pounded home, clause after clause. Some of the clumsiness derives from Barbara Harshav's inelegant translation -- we're often aware of her struggle -- but she can't be blamed for the pervasive bloat.

  Michelle Huneven

  Spiritual, Struggle, Book

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• My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.

  Frank Bruno

  Men, Boxing, Guy

  "Frank Bruno schools young boxers on Dereck Chisora and David Haye" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Writing, Car, Music Is

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• The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

  E. B. White

  Race, Glasses, Car

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• The summer day is closed - the sun is set:
  Well they have done their office, those bright hours,
  The latest of whose train goes softly out
  In the red west. The green blade of the ground
  Has risen, and herds have cropped it; the young twig
  Has spread its plaited tissues to the sun;
  Flowers of the garden and the waste have blown
  And withered; seeds have fallen upon the soil,
  From bursting cells, and in their graves await
  Their resurrection. Insects from the pools
  Have filled the air awhile with humming wings,
  That now are still for ever; painted moths
  Have wandered the blue sky, and died again

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Flower, Garden

  William Cullen Bryant, “From: An Evening Revery”

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• It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Children, Training, Principles

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.347, Delphi Classics

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• We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Military, Males, Citizens

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.257, Algora Publishing

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• I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder.

  John Cheever

  Love, Rain, Snow

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• God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fire, Iron, Water

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.74, Dial Press

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• My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head... I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

  Jack Tatum

  Football, Believe, Ideas

  Jack Tatum, Bill Kushner (1980). “They Call Me Assassin”, Avon Books

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• Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Beach, Doctors, People

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• The records that I like, they have life and warmth and soul in them. Like the slap back on Scotty Moore's guitar on 'Mystery Train.' You're not gonna get that in a computer. You're gonna want a live room, you're gonna wanna bounce the tape, you're gonna want real musicians, in a room, vibin' off of each other.

  Channing Tatum

  Real, Guitar, Soul

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• Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Landscape, Worst

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I love to be sore and when I feel sore I train even harder.

  Serge Nubret

  Harder, Feels

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• Remember the mind is your best muscle...BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains... Ride the brain train for success.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Moving, Rocks, Brain

  Twitter post from Oct 12, 2010

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• When I go on location, we have a schedule. And when you have a schedule, you know when you're not working, so I train very well on location. But I also train three or four times a week at home, but today I train differently than before.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Home, Three, Schedules

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• We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

  Shepard Smith

  America, Want, Moments

  "Shepard Smith Uncensored:'We Are America, We Do Not F**king Torture!'" by Nico Pitney, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2009.

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• Within less than an hour, Chuck and I easily located what could well be the correct platform, where we pass the time by perspiring freely until the train storms in, colorfully decorated, as is the tradition in New York, with the spray-painted initials of all the people it has run over.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Running, New York

  Dave Barry (1989). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, Ballantine Books

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• It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and most of the night.

  Bertrand Russell

  Book, Reading, Night

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• The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.

  Clifford Allbutt

  Writing, Science, Mind

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