Famous quotes containing the words man, steam and/or railway:
“The duce of any other rule have I to govern myself by in this affairand if I had one ... I would twist it and tear it to pieces, and throw it into the fire when I had doneAm I warm? I am, and the cause demands ita pretty story! is a man to follow rulesor rules to follow him?”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if I do not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (17831842)
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understandmy mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arms length.”
—Angela Carter (19401992)