Quotes about train
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“It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

Training

“That's very funny," says Peeta. Suddenly he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. "Only not to us.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Training

“I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.”

Ben Carson book Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

God, Way, Training

“Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl… interrupted.”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

Life, Dreams, Girl, Training

“Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.”

Junot Díaz (1968) Dominican-American writer

Feeling, Training

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Education, Thinking, Learning, Training

“In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.”

Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking

Source: Wishful Drinking

Life, Problem, Training

“Fine. I'll train. But I'm going to the stinking capitol if I have to kill a crew and fly there myself." Says Johanna.
"Probably best not to bring that up in training," I say. "But it's nice to know I'll have a ride.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Flying, Training

“The rules are the rules for a reason. Being a Shadowhunter, a good one, is about more than just training fourteen hours a day and knowing sixty-five ways of killing a man with salad tongs.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Way, Training

“Oh my God!" said one of the Ambers. "Is this not the worst trip ever? Did you see the snow?"
She was a sharp one, this Amber. What would she notice next? The train? The moon? The hilarious vagaries of human existence? Her own head?”

Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

God, Training

“Life is a train, get on board.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Life, Training

“I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way".”

John Boyne book The Absolutist

Source: The Absolutist

Books, Way, Training

“It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.”

Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Life, Thinking, Time, Training

“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.”

Robin McKinley book Sunshine

Source: Sunshine

Training

“I need to write. It keeps me focused for long enough to complete thoughts. To let each train of thought run to its conclusion and let a new one begin. It keeps me thinking. I’m afraid that if I stop writing I’ll stop thinking and start feeling.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

Feeling, Thinking, Training

“By the time Alec came back into the training room, Jace was lying on the floor, envisioning lines of dancing girls in an effort to ignore the pain in his wrists. It wasn’t working.
~pg. 317~”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Pain, Girl, Lying, Effort

“If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Change, Training

“Hmph," she said. "I'd like to see you learn how to manage sitting and standing up straight in stays and petticoats and a dress with a foot's worth of train!"
"So would I," said Gideon from across the room.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Learning, Training

“Dying should come easy:
like a freight train you
don't hear when
your back is
turned.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems

Training

“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Training

“Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Variant: You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?
Source: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Art, Joy, Training

“Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

Change, Time, Training

“All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

Men, World, Girl, Training

“Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the powere to accept anything and move on.”

Robin Wasserman book Skinned

Source: Skinned

Training

“It's not funny, Jace," Alec interrupted, starting to his feet. "Are you just going to let her stand there and call me names?"

"Yes," Jace said kindly. "It'll do you good-- try to think of it as endurance training.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Thinking, Training

“Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

People, World, Art, History

“Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

Training

“I've been thinking of installing a train in my house. It could bring me shrimp crackers from the kitchen.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Thinking, Housing, Training

“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine… But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine…”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

Training

“In theory, when yoou're done with training, you should be able ot kick a hole in a wall or eknock out a moose with a single punch."

"I would never hit a moose," said Clary. "They're endangered.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Variant: And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you should be able to kick a hole in a wall or knock out a moose with a single punch."
"I would never hit a moose," said Clary. "They're endangered.
Source: City of Fallen Angels

Training

“Was this all part of your plan as my lawyer? I don't recall explosive escapes being part of the legal training."
"Well, I'm sure it wasn't part of Damon Taru's legal training.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Parting, Training

“Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose”

George Lucas (1944) American film producer

Fear, Jealousy, Training

“Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Baby, Training, Dead

“A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Training

“Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. To make myself put a name to the thing I've lost. But what's the use? It's gone. He's gone. Whatever existed between us is gone. All that's left is my promise to kill Snow. I tell myself this ten times a day.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Katniss (p. 195)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)

Boy, Kiss, Strong, Time

“I can see why you opted out of Knight training,” I countered. “They’d have ‘accidentally’ killed you before you made it to adulthood.”

Jenna Black (1965) American writer

Source: Glimmerglass

Adulthood, Training

“His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.”

William Gibson book Neuromancer

Source: Neuromancer

Training

“I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

Music, Training

“Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.”

Judith Guest Ordinary People

Source: Ordinary People

Thinking, Time, Training

“I went to college. Got a master’s degree. Went to Quantico for training. Been chasing down bad guys.”
She gave her grandmother a wry look. “You know, the usual girly stuff.”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: The Vampire and the Virgin

Guy, Training

“So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.”

Alan Moore book Batman: The Killing Joke

Batman : The Killing Joke (1988)
Source: Batman: The Killing Joke
Context: When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened.
Forever.

Past, Training, Madness

“We all see only that which we are trained to see.”

Robert Anton Wilson book Masks of the Illuminati

Source: Masks of the Illuminati

Training

“How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Men, Tree, Training

“Most people believe me when I lie. I've learned how to say the words just right. I have a trusting kind of face. But the boy in front of me was a trained operative, so Zach knew better. And besides, Zach new me.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

People, Lie, Boy, Learning

“Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?”

Marc Maron (1963) Comedian

People, Training

“You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns.”

Warren Ellis book Aetheric Mechanics

Source: Aetheric Mechanics

Training

“Life is the train and not the station.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

Life, Training

“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst

Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Pain, Idea, Success, Training

“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Life, World, Color, Mood

“Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.”

Jim Butcher book Fool Moon

Source: Fool Moon

Dance, Training, Clothes

“I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.”

Charlaine Harris Dead and Gone

Source: Dead and Gone

People, Training

“Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Training

“It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice.
As you may expect, someone has died.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Way, Tree, Training

“Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it."
Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?"
"I've never swam naked in the Thames, but I know I wouldn't like it.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Training

“Neither a wise man or a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)

As quoted in TIME magazine (6 October 1952)
1950s

History, Waiting, Future, Training

“By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and have a best friend whose weird magic could drive her crazy.
Hey, no one said high school was easy.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Love, School, Way, Guy

“A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Training

“I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way.
~Train Heartnet”

Kentaro Yabuki (1980) Japanese manga artist

Source: Black Cat, Volume 01

Life, Way, Training

“Kate Daniels, trained negotiator. When in possession of some valuable information, give it away to the first sexy man you see with no guarantee of return.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Training

“…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

Source: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Truth, Understanding, Thinking, Training

“Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

Sense, Training

“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

Training

“Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure
Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure
I’d face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.”

A.E. Housman book A Shropshire Lad

No. 62, st. 3.
Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896)

World, Chance, Sun, Training

“Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.”

Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince

Source: The Prince

Men, Nature, Training

“If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Imagination, Thinking, Silence, Training

“The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.”

Robert Lowell (1917–1977) Poet

Light, Training

“You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.”

Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) Film actress from Sweden

Training

“The people on the train with me don't know it, but in my head I'm dancing.”

Wendy Mass Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

People, Dance, Training

“Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Training

“I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train…”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

Training

“I'm investigating people who sacrifice trained killers to dark gods.
Perfect, it will keep him occupied.
In what capacity?
Bait.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

God, People, Perfection, Training

“Drive down any road,

take a train or an airplane
across the world, leave
your old life behind,

die and be born again~
wherever you arrive
they'll be there first,

glossy and rowdy
and indistinguishable.
The deep muscle of the world.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1

Life, World, Training

“Eating next to a twenty-foot-long crocodile took some getting used to, but Philip was well trained. He only ate bacon, stray waterfowl, and the occasional invading monster.”

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

Training

“The craft is finding a decent drainpipe to get access to the site as much as it is in the art… Van Gogh used short, stumpy brush strokes to convey his insanity - I use short, thin ledges above mainline train tracks.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Evening Post, 2004 (taken from "Home Sweet Home - Banksy's Bristol" by Steve Wright)
Other sources
Source: Wall and Piece

Art, Training

“I'll never get laid trying to keep you safe. You're a train wreck on steroids.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Training

“You want safe? Find a nice puppy you can train to come heel. Love's supposed to be scary. Because if there's no fear, there's no thrill.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Love, Fear, Training

“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Variant: I sometimes think that people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

People, Imagination, Thinking, Waiting

“To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.”

James P. Carse American academic

Source: Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

Education, Training

“… That would be like stepping in front of a moving train and saying, 'Hey, honey, come stand next to me.'"
I hopped off the wall and stood next to him. "Anytime."
He just looked at me.
"I've never killed a train before. It might be fun to try.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

Training

“I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.”

Anna Funder (1966) Australian writer

Source: Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Freedom, Training

“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

People, Religion, Art, Thinking

“My heart is warm with friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

"Travel", st. 3, Second April, 1921
Source: The Selected Poetry

Heart, Training

“Will: "You are not really dying, are you?"

Jem: "So they tell me."

Will: "I am sorry."

Jem: "No. Don’t be ordinary like that. Don’t say you’re sorry. Say you’ll train with me."

Will: "I’ll train with you.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Training

“Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

Time, Training

“The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

Error, Training

“Do go on,' he said. 'There's nothing I enjoy more than listening to a highly trained intelligence leapfrogging common sense and coming to the wrong conclusions. It gives me renewed faith in parliamentary democracy.”

Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) English satirical novelist

Source: Wilt On High

Faith, Democracy, Intelligence, Sense

“Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind.”

Mineko Iwasaki (1949) Japanese Geisha

Source: Geisha, a Life

Parting, Training

“Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.”

Yasmina Khadra book What the Day Owes the Night

Source: Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

Life, Training

“Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?

Y. C.: An unhappy childhood.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Source: Ernest Hemingway on Writing

Childhood, Training

“If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Training

“Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Training

“We recruit for attitude and train for skill”

Atul Gawande (1965) American surgeon

Training

“Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry… and he's a mass murderer.”

Thomas Harris Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

Training

“If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.”

Ann Druyan (1949) American author and producer

Fear, Search, Knowledge, Training

“Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.”

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

Learning, Summer, Training, Country

“With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Evil, Training

“Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it…. Someone just ripped off my eyelids.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Girl, Training

“We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Princess Irulan in The Humanity of Muad'Dib
Dune (1965)
Context: Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

Learning, Training

“Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Music, Boy, Training

“If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.”

Alyson Nöel book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

Feeling, Training

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