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.
There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam - we were supposed to write a 20-page report on this book about Houdini. I probably would have loved reading it, but I didn't, so I just decided to make a little super-8 movie based on it. I tied myself to the railroad tracks and all that. I mean, this is kid stuff, but it impressed the teacher, and I got an A. And that was maybe my first turning point, when I said, 'Yeah, I wouldn't mind being a filmmaker. '
Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.
It was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions, and I made them and considered them good paying investments for the company. In a Republican district I was a strong Republican; in a Democratic district I was Democratic, and in doubtful districts I was doubtful. In politics I was an Erie Railroad man all the time.
Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting.
Wherever I go, I'm watching. Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures, and find out how people do things.
When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.
Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.
I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.
A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!
I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.
God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!
In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican. ' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.
We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.
Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests are mutual. They ought to be able to act together as one. But they divide according to craft and calling, and if you were to propose today to unite them that they might actually do something to advance their collective and individual interests as workers, you would be opposed by every grand officer of these organizations.
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.
One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.
I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.