Gertrude Stein Quotes

I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.

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.

Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going to go to Roseville. We got off it and got on another train. And we got to Roseville, and it takes hours to get through that yard. It's really big. So we ended up just coming back here. It's like fishing or hunting. You can't always come back with something.

What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

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

I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern Railway, what used to be the Western region, and in Europe as much as I could afford it. My parents used to think I was going places, but I wasn't, I was just travelling the trains.

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

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

The rail service is important for my district.

I've always been the kind of person who leaves parties early to catch the last bus home.

Man is a gaming animal.

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

It is not the owner of stage-coaches who builds railways.

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

There is no passenger railroad service anywhere in the world that is not subsidized.

There's something about being out here on the road that the hours aren't anything like what you're used to when you're at home.

Whenever I have an opportunity, I catch a train and go to Wales and hire a car and drive around.

I like to read on the train.

In some ways, being on the road is like summer camp. There's a camaraderie, but I'm also learning how to be more of a leader.

The advantage of trains over planes is that there is much less hassle. You can get up from your seat and stroll about; you're more likely to meet people, and, particularly if you're making a long journey, you can actually see the terrain.

It's kind of beautiful to sit inside a bus and see a city from the windows.

I'd read a classics book on the bus when I was at York.

I know how to get around London better than Sydney.

In general I'd say that I need to be with the right people in the right place - although one of the best holidays I ever had was alone.