“Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail.”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
"Hymn of the Rail".
“Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail.”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
Hussain Ahmed Madani (1879–1957) 19th century Islamic scholar of India
Hussain Ahmad Madani Malfuzat Hadrat Madani, p.83 (Delhi: Dar al-Isha‘at, July 1998 ed.) by Mawlana Abu ‘l-Hasan Barah Bankwi
“Rift, routes, rails ("Rifts, Roads and Rails"), Gallimard, Paris 2001,”
Abdourahman A. Waberi (1965) Djiboutian writer
Works
Colin Moulding (1955) English bassist, songwriter and vocalist
"Set Myself On Fire"
White Music (1978)
“No one trains like me. No one rides like me. This jersey's mine.”
Lance Armstrong (1971) professional cyclist from the USA
On the team bus, after winning his fifth Tour de France in 2003, as quoted in "On your marks, get set … go!" in The Guardian by William Fotheringham in The Guardian (30 June 2007) http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/jun/30/featuresreviews.guardianreview7 <br class="br">Context: No one trains like me. No one rides like me. This jersey's mine. I live for this jersey. It's my life. No one's taking it away from me. This fucking jersey's mine.
“Carlos Ramirez: Everyone else who lets me ride on their dinosaur calls me Carlos.”
Jim Butcher book White Night
Source: The Dresden Files, Dead Beat (2005), Chapter 41
Source: White Night
Chuck Berry (1926–2017) American rock-and-roll musician
"I Want to Be Your Driver" (1965)
Song lyrics