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Quotes About Rail

Haven't you seen the movies? It's the criminal masterminds who get rail transit in their hideouts. The good guys have to hoof it." 
~ Harry Connolly
Nationally, unrestrained Heathrow expansion has prevented the balanced development of regional airports and their economies and the planning of an integrated transport system maximising more environmentally friendly modes of transport such as rail linked more effectively to Europe.
~ John McDonnell
Housing, not buying, should be a right - and available and affordable for all. Right to buy is devastating our housing system, just as rail privatisation has devastated our transport infrastructure.
~ Dawn Foster
Rail in Europe is incredibly important as far as a transportation medium.
~ Dara Khosrowshahi
This corridor is important to national security and important to the whole Northeast. So it's not just our own New Jersey transportation needs: it's the whole rail corridor here we're talking about.
~ Rodney Frelinghuysen
Romulan, leaning his arms on the rail, stared down into the stagnant water far below, seeing his own miniaturized countenance, hypnotized by it.
~ Tanith Lee
Nobody scarce doth any good, yet they all agree in praising those who do. Indeed, it is strange that all men should consent in commending goodness, and no man endeavour to deserve that commendation; whilst, on the contrary, all rail at wickedness, and all are as eager to be what they abuse.
~ Henry Fielding
High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path.
~ Anthony Albanese
Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.
~ Homer
They had a table near the rail round the huge floor. Bond was spellbound. He found many of the girls very beautiful. The music hammered its way into his pulse until he almost forgot what he was there for.
~ Ian Fleming
When I signed on and went and did 'Catching Fire,' the majority of it was done in Atlanta for rebate reasons. Luckily, that worked because there's forest. There's old rail stations and factories and lots of stuff we can use and sound stages. For the tropical stuff, we went to Hawaii.
~ Francis Lawrence
Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.
~ John Hoeven
Unwitnessed. There was crime in that notion. A profound injustice against which he railed. In silence. Like every other soldier in the Bonehunters. Maybe. No, I am not mistaken – I see something in their eyes. I can see it. We rail against injustice, yes. That what we do will be seen by no-one. Our fate unmeasured.
~ Steven Erikson
When we talk about product by pipeline or product by rail we need to be highly specific about what product we are shipping and under what terms and for what purpose. Solid bitumen by rail is safe as houses, but as again crude by rail poses different risk.
~ Elizabeth May
The Hudson River Tunnel is a chokepoint for the financial center - and most productive region - of the United States. It is the most heavily trafficked piece of rail in the entire country and even a partial closure will suffocate our nation's economy.
~ Mikie Sherrill
I can't," I said. "I've got to study." "We've all got to study," Zara said. "But it's Christmas. The Drome will be all decorated and everybody will be there." "Exactly, which means the light rail will be packed and security will take forever.
~ George R.R. Martin
Papier-mache canals flowed in downtown Lowell, men smoking cigars stand by the rail spitting in the waters that reflect the drizzle hopelessness of 1926.
~ Jack Kerouac
Many people are unable to see friends and family as often as they'd like due to the cost of rail travel.
~ Dawn Foster
America's infinitely ramified rail network, whose veins and capillaries once reached into every small town in the nation, has shrunk to 100,000 miles, the same level as in 1881.
~ Taras Grescoe
We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.
~ Corrine Brown
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me for she never speaks well of me herself nor suffers anybody else to rail at me.
~ William Congreve
Rail longer than train cars ; and the hope than our reasons. (Rail plus long que les wagons ; - Et l'espoir que nos raisons.)
~ Charles de Leusse
Rails that kiss derail; Rails that deviate, too. (Rails qui s'embrassent déraillent; Rails qui s'écartent de même)"
~ Charles de Leusse
I gave him a kick and he stepped back onto the third rail. Exploding, flaming eraser! This is why moms tell you to stay away from the third rail, but it sure came in handy this time.
~ James Patterson