Quote for Today: Erich Maria Remarque
I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup kitchen; I squat on many a bench;–then at last the landscape becomes disturbing, mysterious, and familiar. …
Quote for Today: Taisen Deshimaru
Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The …
Quote for Today: Mark Helprin
Quite possibly there’s nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That’s when you learn that the tragedy of plants is …
In Love with a Train: The Fateful Whimsy of Pica Do 7
Sometimes a journey, no matter how mundane, is the most interesting part of our day. How is art like travel? It is a wonderful quality of travel that it puts us in …
Quote for Today: Robert Penn Warren
…the train goes fast and is going fast when it crosses a little trestle. You catch the sober, metallic, pure, late-light, unriffled glint of the water between the little banks, …
Quote for Today: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station. ―Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the …
Quote for Today: David Baldacci
It’s not getting from A to B. It’s not the beginning or the destination that counts. It’s the ride in between…This train is alive with things that should be seen …
I’m Votin’ for Yours Truly: O Brother Where Art Thou Clip
Happy weekend everybody! I hope your weekend starts out better than this. Video clip via movieclips onYoutube.