Famous quotes containing the words main line, railway, main and/or line:
“The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“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)
“I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.”
—Alan Brien (b. 1925)
“Andrews: You married him only because I told you not to.
Ellie: Youve been telling me what not to do ever since I can remember.
Andrews: Thats because youve always been a stubborn idiot.
Ellie: I come from a long line of stubborn idiots.”
—Robert Riskin (18971955)