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  • There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam - we were supposed to write a 20-page report on this book about Houdini. I probably would have loved reading it, but I didn't, so I just decided to make a little super-8 movie based on it. I tied myself to the railroad tracks and all that. I mean, this is kid stuff, but it impressed the teacher, and I got an A. And that was maybe my first turning point, when I said, 'Yeah, I wouldn't mind being a filmmaker.'

    Teacher   Reading   Book  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!

    Jack London (1988). “The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916. Volume three”, p.193, Stanford University Press
  • I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.

  • I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

    Women   Eight   Years  
    Quoted in Lyde Cullen Sizer, Divided Houses (1992)
  • I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

    Track   Railroads   Green  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • It is still news to her that passion could steer her wrong though she went down, a thousand times strung out across railroad tracks, off bridges under cars, or stiff glass bottle still in hand, hair soft on greasy pillows, still it is news she cannot follow love (his burning footsteps in blue crystal snow) & still come out all right.

    Passion   Glasses   Hair  
  • RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.

    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.176, 谷月社
  • Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!... Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it... and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!

    Sports   Home   Thinking  
    "The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916". Stanford University Press. Volume three, 1988.
  • Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

    Life   Track   House  
  • Separation of the Church and State is like a railroad track. It cannot be close to one another, neither can it be distant, because there will be derailment. We (Church) should cooperate with the government and the government should cooperate with us because we're serving the same people.

  • 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.

    Father   Cutting   Men  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.

    Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.135, U of Nebraska Press
  • A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

    "Art of Communicating Ideas". Book by William Joseph Grace, p. 389, 1952.
  • You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.

    Women   Reflection   Self  
  • I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop where the scrub lining the railroad tracks had offered local companies enough cover to dump a stray contaner or two. Everything had been sealed up, but things were beginning to leak out. I had come to both pity and respect Len in the years since my mother left. He followed the physical to try to understand things that were impossible to comphrehend. In that, I could see, he was like me.

    Mother   Thinking   Years  
  • And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice. It was my mother.

    Mother   Running   Voice  
    Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.216, Penguin
  • A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

  • A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

    Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.394, Courier Corporation
  • I knew when the ball was going out (over the Green Monster). It was something I worked into the decoy, but it used to tick the pitchers off. Bill Monbouquette used to say, 'Can't you at least make it look like you can catch it?' Meanwhile, the ball would be on its way over the fence to a spot three-quarters of the way out to the railroad tracks.

  • It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a man!', 'Be nice to your sister!', 'Don't mix beer and wine, ever!'. Oh yeah, 'Don't drive on the railroad track!'

    Nice   Wine   Beer  
  • Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

  • Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of my story.

    Writing   Voice   Track  
  • People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive a car goes way down, as it will.

    People   Track   Car  
    Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.
  • When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.

    Kids   Track   Railroads  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

    Track   Railroads   Lost  
    Quoted in Lyde Cullen Sizer, Divided Houses (1992)
  • Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom? He got tickled by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor, . . . . And all the more that he kept gigglin', All the more folks kept ticklin'. He shrieked and screamed and rolled around, Laughed his way right out of town. Through the country down the road, He got tickled by a toad. . . . . Giggling, rolling on his back He rolled on the railroad track. Rumble, rumble, whistle, roar- Tom ain't ticklish any more.

    Mom   Country   Laughter  
    Shel Silverstein, “Ticklish Tom”
  • I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet to me like the sudden springing of a tune, And the sight of a white church above thin trees in a city square Amazes my eyes as though it were the Parthenon.

    Sweet   Eye   Tired  
    1925 'Meeting-House Hill'.
  • When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

    Kids   Nba   Parent  
  • I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.

  • The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

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