Rail Station

Famous quotes containing the words rail and/or station:

    “For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.”
    —Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

    “I introduced her to Elena, and in that life-quickening atmosphere of a big railway station where everything is something trembling on the brink of something else, thus to be clutched and cherished, the exchange of a few words was enough to enable two totally dissimilar women to start calling each other by their pet names the very next time they met.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)