Navvies Railway Quotes & Sayings

Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to sustain a sense of connectedness, to resist existential loneliness; and so a novel deserves a reader's attention only as long as the author sustains the reader's trust. — Jonathan Franzen

The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect. — Howard Coble

Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you. It is because they know that the train is going right. It is because they know that whatever place they have taken a ticket for that place they will reach. It is because after they have passed Sloane Square they know that the next station must be Victoria, and nothing but Victoria. Oh, their wild rapture! oh, their eyes like stars and their souls again in Eden, if the next station were unaccountably Baker Street! — Gilbert K. Chesterton

From things about to disappear I turn away in time. To watch them out of sight, no, I can't do it. — Samuel Beckett

I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful. — Ruth Handler

The first two chapters appear to be a record of creation, but this is superficial. The underlying thought is focused on life. These two chapters are a record of life. They are too simple and too brief to be an adequate account of creation. Genesis 1 and 2 were not intended by God to be a record of creation, but a revelation of life. — Witness Lee

Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn't quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone. — John Steinbeck

Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work. — John Eliot

There's something vaguely erotic about watching a woman eat a banana while cupping two plums. — Dana Gould