Whistle Stop Train

Famous quotes containing the words whistle, stop and/or train:

“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you’ve got an audience.”
—Diogenes of Sinope (c. 410–320 B.C.)

“The day people stop looking out for themselves first will be the end of the world.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to lay a train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible!”
—Henry James (1843–1916)