Closely Observed Trains

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

    Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    Conventions, at the present moment, are really menaced. The most striking sign of this is that people are now making unconventionality a social virtue, instead of an unsocial vice. The switches have been opened, and the laden trains must take their chance of a destination.
    Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)