Running Rails

Famous quotes containing the words running and/or rails:

“Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.”
—Liz Smith (b. 1923)

“You could almost see the brass on her gleaming,
Not quite. The mist was to light what red
Is to fire. And her mainmast tapered to nothing,
Without teetering a millimeter’s measure.
The beads on her rails seemed to grasp at transparence.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)