Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.
The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.
An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.
I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.
I am the passenger, I stay under glass. I look through my window so bright, I see the stars come out tonight. I see the bright and hollow sky, over the city's ripped backsides and everything looks good tonight.
Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat of an engine car the color of coal, a string of shiny passenger cars trailing behind. One day my father laughed and corrected me. Everything snapped into focus. It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.
Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver.
Learn to drive?" "Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.
While passenger numbers have doubled in the past 20 years, the industry remains scandalously inefficient.
When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.
I confess I've never felt like a passenger.
The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.
I am not a passenger in anything I do.
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
