"The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental."

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James J. Hill

#Males Quotes #Passengers Quotes #Train Quotes

“If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz-thanks for playing extreme capitalism.”

Source : Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.165, Spiegel & Grau
“Although people who had achieved a great deal in science and technology talked of the inscrutability of creativity, I was not convinced and disbelieved them immediately and without argument. Why should everything but creativity be open to scrutiny? What kind of process can this be which unlike all others is not subject to control?â€¦What can be more alluring than the discovery of the nature of talented thought and converting this thinking from occasional and fleeting flashes into a powerful and controllable fire of knowledge.”
“The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.”
“The price for men in motion is the occasional collision...”
“We play a different style than other teams. It's effective, but different. We run the floor, block shots and create turnovers.”
“My daughter told me she wasn't afraid of spider but that she was afraid of my smoking. She said that she was afraid of my dying. So I went downstairs, picked up a pair of pliers and a blowtorch and showed her what real fear was.”
“When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.”
“Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.”

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