Rails Quotes

My father died beside trees on iron rails… He had 77 dollars on him at the time, and we used the money for Thai takeout because, as my friend Julie says about times like this, ‘You still have to eat.’

The Congress is dividing the country on the lines of caste and regions. We need a stable government to put the country and its economy back on the rails.

When I was fighting at a weekend, I would be in when my friends were out. I never had time to go out and go off the rails.

Every time I got ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ or ‘Fantastic Four‘ or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.

Light rails are too bus-like to impress most commuters, too squished and close to the ground. Monorails, by contrast, strike a chord with travelers. There’s something about the sleek designs, the pillowy rides, and the panoramic views that just enchants.

That friend a great man‘s ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

When you‘re in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you’re not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you’re not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn’t failing; it’s getting too comfortable.

So many of these former child actors and actresses seem to go off the rails.

There’s no one who, at some point, hasn’t had the feeling their life is on the rails and they can’t do anything about it.

I like Mark Hunt and I’ve always said good things about Mark Hunt. He goes a little bit off the rails every now and again, but I’ve never done anything but respect Mark Hunt.

A movie like ‘Transcendence’ may be pertinent in its political reverberations of all computer data held in a cloud and monitored by the NSA, but it also rails against the tools its makers so artfully employ.

It was not easy to go into a subway in 1955 at eight o’clock in the morning smelling nice and hanging on the rails with white make-up. I could see people nudging each other saying, ‘What is that?’

I think I’m a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.

Stolen scrap like manhole covers, railroad weights, stop signs, guard rails, and public lighting put our residents in grave danger. Not only that, but the theft is tearing apart communities with stolen church and cemetery ornaments.

Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.

Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.

I’m glad I had to wait until my 40s for success. I was not a mature young man and would probably have gone off the rails.

There are lots of different interpretations of the word ‘prodigy.’ My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don’t think I’ll go off the rails.

Every time I see the rails of my photo shoots, it’s like Dr. Seuss, or as if they’ve skinned Muppets.

Instead of more talk about salmon and high-speed rails, more criticism of the Supreme Court or more praise for the Soviet‘s Sputnik mission – President Obama should use his State of the Union Address to tell the American people the truth about the fundamental financial challenges our country faces.

All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor – he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc.

People talk a lot about Pixar going off the rails. A lot of people are saying they aren’t happy that we are making sequels. But for every one of those people, there is one that is happy because they fell in love with the worlds we created. We hope we’ve proved that a sequel can be every bit as enjoyable as the original.

The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I’m my own person.

I’ve really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it’s still something I do.