Great Train Robbery Quotes & Sayings

The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation. — Edward Hallett Carr

Every single question is a test; every single answer is a testimony. — Ben Tolosa

I would like to like to make one thing clear at the very outset and that is, when you speak of a train robbery, this involved no loss of train, merely what I like to call the contents of the train, which were pilfered. We haven't lost a train since 1946, I believe it was - the year of the great snows when we mislaid a small one. — Peter Cook

Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say. — Salman Rushdie

Do not be afraid to preach the gospel; Jesus was not afraid to die on the cross. — Felix Wantang

If she died as a result of this journey, it wouldn't be because of slavers. It would be because Richard's inability to communicate would give her a heart attack. — Ilona Andrews

One of the fundamental issues with The Vatican is that the world changed on us. That show was conceived and written while Pope Benedict was still in charge of the Vatican, and it was conceived in a world that now would feel very dated. — David Nevins

I have a hat for it, actually." Elliott made a vague gesture with one hand. "Well, it's more of a full-body suit, really."
"Is that a euphemism for a condom?"
"No." He marched past me and lay down on the bed. "My mother knitted me a willy-warmer a few years back when we were having a cold stretch. She felt I wasn't like to produce the grandchildren she desires if I had as she put it, frost-shriveled parts. — Katie MacAlister

The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished. — Luke Evans

Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l'arn its lessons. — James Fenimore Cooper

The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it. — Peter T. King

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

To choose who to love, is a decision no one else can help you with -- you have to decide for yourself. — Auliq Ice

There is scarcely a town or school in Russia from which boys have not run away to the war. Hundreds of girls have gone off in boys' clothes and tried to pass themselves off as boys and enlist as volunteers, and several have got through, since the medical examination is only a negligible formality required in one place, forgotten in another. — Stephen Graham

Every important journey I have undertaken has begun the same: with crushed sheets, a balled pillow, flung open books, and not a wink of sleep. — Josiah Bancroft

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way. — Robert De Niro