Closely Observed Trains

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

    “Let us together closely lie, and kisse,
    There is no labour, nor no shame in this;
    This hath pleas’d, doth please, and long will please; never
    Can this decay, but is beginning ever.”
    —Petronius Arbiter (d.A.D. 66)

    “Often on bare rocky carries the trail was so indistinct that I repeatedly lost it, but when I walked behind him I observed that he could keep it almost like a hound, and rarely hesitated, or, if he paused a moment on a bare rock, his eye immediately detected some sign which would have escaped me. Frequently we found no path at all at these places, and were to him unaccountably delayed. He would only say it was “ver strange.””
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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