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Quotes About Train

Young woman, I think that there are at least two things more irritating than a lighter which won't work in a train on a long journey. One of them's being disembowelled by the Gestapo, and the other's being talked at by you.
~ Bruce Marshall
I watched a train come in. It was full of tourists, who (it may have been a subjective illusion) seemed to me common and worthless people, and sad into the bargain.
~ Hilaire Belloc
At stations along the way, they debarked to stretch their legs and buy a hot dog or a sandwich, but as they stepped down onto the platforms, an officer told them that any man who was not back aboard when the train left the station "would be considered AWOL and subject to courts-martial.
~ Ian W. Toll
Your mind is just like your body. It's a muscle you can train and get better at.
~ Rose Namajunas
Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.
~ Vivien Leigh
You cannot embrace the action or play the role correctly if you're having someone else do the movements for you. I want to be doing it myself, unless it's going to be a train wreck.
~ Jason Momoa
The train ride back from Yekteraslav was hell. Zelach brooded, pouted, almost sucked his thumb. He shifted and squirmed and demanded more attention than a petulant child.
~ Stuart M. Kaminsky
Some things are easier to parrellelize than others. It's pretty easy to train up 100 models and pick the best one. If you want to train one big model but do it on hundreds of machines, that's a lot harder to parallelize.
~ Jeff Dean
Our glass train, on fragile tracksBeneath bombs that fall like the floodTo wash away the shards—But all this sorrow will recedeAnd we will leaveTwo by twoAnd until then, I will only think of you.
~ Danny M. Cohen, Train
Perhaps it is because novels are like affairs, and small novels - with fewer pages of plot to them - are affairs with less history, affairs that involved just a few glances across a dinner table or a single ride together, unspeaking, on a train, and therefore affairs are still electric with potential, still heart-quickening, even after the passage of all these years.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Eejits can feel pain, mi patron, otherwise I couldn't train them. I don't think they suffer in the same way we do. To suffer implies emotion, and eejits don't have that
~ Nancy Farmer
got up to fetch a glass of water and, assuming I'd missed the train to sleep, I went up to the study, opened the drawer in my desk and pulled out the book I had rescued from the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Siempre he creído que el destino, amén de su afición a embestir a los inocentes por la espalda y a ser posible a calzón quitado, gustaba de anidar en las estaciones de tren en sus pausas de refresco. Allí empezaban o terminaban tragedias y romances, huidas y retornos, traiciones y ausencias. La vida, se decía, es una estación de tren en la que uno casi siempre se sube, o le suben, al vagón equivocado.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.
~ Joni Mitchell
By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.
~ Thomas Hobbes
She gazed backward at iron convergences and receding signal-lamps. Outward and visible metaphor, she thought, for the complete ensemble of free choices that define the course of a human life. A new switching point every few seconds, sometimes seen, sometimes traveled over invisibly and irrevocably. From on board the train one can stand and look back, and watch it all flowing away, shining, as if always meant to be.
~ Thomas Pynchon
ear that she doubted if they would be able to get this particular train when the doors opened and people began to descend.
~ Katie Flynn
convex side of the train," he wrote, "when both the
~ Candice Millard
I wasn't teasing you. I mean to keep you here forever and train you to be sinless", "Gods, how - oops, sorry. I mean golly, how adorable are you?" - Bianka to Lasyter
~ Gena Showalter
He went to his note bag and took out hand sanitizer. Later, he placed his note bag back over the same shoulder. The train was incredibly late. Bruce waited and waited. A happy Trudy appeared from behind him and touched his arm. Bruce jumped. Trudy didn't mean to scare him. "Oops,
~ Gene Geter
In writing I was often aware that the same observation could fit neatly into different ideological moulds and that a train window is both mirror and window.
~ Geoffrey Blainey
He chuckled into my hair. My body decided this would be a fine moment to remember that his body was wrapped around mine and his body was muscular, hard, and hot, and my butt was pressed against his groin. Cuddled up by a dragon. No, thank you. Let me off this train. "If you keep wiggling, things might get uncomfortable," he said into my ear, his voice like a caress. "I'm doing my best, but thinking about baseball only takes you so far.
~ Ilona Andrews
The train was nearly twenty minutes late, an excellent performance by British Rail standards.
~ Irvine Welsh
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
~ Paul Getty