Tim Rice Quotes

The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.

I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation.

I have liked trains since I was a boy, although I was never a train-spotter.

Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.

The U.S. has not been big in new coaches - the U.S. is really behind Europe. It's the great passenger car and airplane that dominate American travel, and trains and buses have been much more secondary.

I think what initially attracts many kids to trains are the 'cool' things: strength, size, agency, speed. But trains also operate within a world of systems, schedules, codes, and fine distinctions. Enter the geeks. What I personally love most about trains is that they are transporting, that they take us places - literally and otherwise.

My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the romantic feeling of it. There's something about it that just transports me into old films.

People don't want to cut back on the railroads, and they haven't ridden the damn things in years.

… to rely on a train, in [Tony] Blair's Britain, is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil.

I used to hitchhike a lot. I'd come home on the train from New York, and there'd be no cabs, but people would pick me right up and take me to my door because they recognised me. It was like a car service. I never really had a bad experience hitchhiking.

I love to get on the road, but I also think arriving is such a thrill. Turning up at the train station in Mumbai, for example, to see people hanging off all the wonderful old carriages. It's extraordinary - everyone sitting with their chickens on their laps, moving forward but not going anywhere fast.

More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.

It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.

Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.

I sought trains; I found passengers.

I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.

I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway.

I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

I don't travel by airplane. I mean that because when my wife, my kids and I travel on trains or boats, we meet a lot of people and we talk to them.