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.)

    “If I can stop one heart from breaking
    I shall not live in vain:”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “I would love to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche on a train or boat and to talk with him all night. Incidentally, I don’t consider his philosophy long-lived. It is not so much persuasive as full of bravura.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)