Closely Observed Trains

Famous quotes containing the words closely, observed and/or trains:

    “However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and now and again they notice it.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.”
    —Francis Bacon (1560–1626)

    “Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?”
    —Billy Wilder (b. 1906)