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Trains Quotes (page 21)

Once or twice every night, serving dinner at the big round table, Enid glanced over her shoulder and caught him looking, and made him blush. Al was Kansan. After two months he found courage to take her skating. They drank cocoa and he told her that human beings were born to suffer. He took her to a steel-company Christmas party and told her that the intelligent were doomed to be tormented by the stupid. He was a good dancer and a good earner, however, and she kissed him in the elevator. ... Jonathan Franzen
Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car. Flannery O'Connor
I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup kitchen; I squat on many a bench;--then at last the landscape becomes disturbing, mysterious, and familiar. It glides past the western windows with its villages, their thatched roofs like caps, pulled over the white-washed, half-timbered houses, its corn-fields, gleaming like mother-of-pearl in the slanting light, its orchards, its barns and old lime trees. The names of the stations begin to take on meaning and my heart... Erich Maria Remarque
Do go on,' he said. 'There's nothing I enjoy more than listening to a highly trained intelligence leapfrogging common sense and coming to the wrong conclusions. It gives me renewed faith in parliamentary democracy. Tom Sharpe
As if I would EVER give birth. I suppose a well-mannered little six-year-old would be all right, but they simply don’t COME that way. You have to TRAIN them. Too tiresome. I can understand your anguish. Meg Cabot
That in some way he could work the fat off his soul the way a fighter went into the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body Ernest Hemingway
Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But the highest source of suffering appears to be reserved for the innocent who undergo divine tutorial training. Neal A. Maxwell
His prayer, addressed neither to God nor saint, began with a shiver, as the chilly morning breeze crept through the chink of the carriage door to his feet, and ended in a trail of foolish words which he made to fit the insistent rhythm of the train; and silently, at intervals of four seconds, the telegraph-poles held the galloping notes of the music between punctual bars. James Joyce
Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote: "If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the..."
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Eldridge Cleaver quote: "I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book..."
I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book somewhere, 'push myself forward like a train. Eldridge Cleaver
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamily self-aware, the submicroscopic moments. Hesaid this more than once, Elster did, in more than one way. His life happened, he said, when he sat staring at a blank wall, thinking about dinner...He said we do this all the time, all of us, we become ourselves beneath the running thoughts and dim images, wondering idly when we'll... Don DeLillo
he waits for the kid to decide whether to pull the gun up or simply to drop it - and all the while, even as he tracks the progress of the gun, he is also watching the kid's face, to see whether he is dangerous or simply frightened. is there a more beautiful example of a snap judgment? this is the gift of training and expertise - the ability to extract an enormous amount of meaningful information from the very thinnest slice of experience. Malcolm Gladwell
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An..."
Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood. Ernest Hemingway
You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns. Warren Ellis
Arthur Ransome quote: "The island had come to seem one of those places seen from the..."
The island had come to seem one of those places seen from the train that belong to a life in which we shall never take part. Arthur Ransome

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