Train Tracks Quotes

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  • Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.

    Humor   Vegas   Tunnels  
  • 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)
  • He gathers me up and I'm weightless before he sets me on the railing. He's the only thing keeping me from falling back, out of the reach of daylight. I'm not afraid of falling. I don't fear the sky beyond the train tracks like I did before. I can go anywhere just so long as it's with him.

    Fall   Sky   Long  
    FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Jun 18, 2013
  • The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.

    Walter Mosley (2009). “This Year You Write Your Novel”, p.10, Hachette UK
  • 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
  • If you live up against train tracks, it can make your life a living hell.

    Track   Hell   Train  
    "Ted Leo and Ben Arthur Discuss Carly Simon, Joyce Carl Oates, and the Touring Grind". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. June 26, 2016.
  • There's a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they might be caused harm. It's called a 'public nuisance.' I wouldn't mind being called that for my life's work.

    Space   People   Track  
  • If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.

    Thinking   People   Track  
  • Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.

  • The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.

    Track   Roaring   Rope  
  • 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
  • To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

    Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr
  • Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

    "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.
  • 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)
  • I feel quite lost INSIDE myself, like I'm looking for my train tracks for my life, as if they would just appear and solve the growing questions I seem to face (my reflection in the morning).

  • September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That’s how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and next thing you know, you’re tied to train tracks. But her wild, untried heart opened up another bloom inside her, a dark branch heavy with fruit.

    Sympathy   Heart   Dark  
    Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.517, Macmillan
  • Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

  • Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

    Life   Change   Wise  
    1952 In Time, 6 Oct.
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