Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Pierce

We were supposed to leave on the Amtrak Crescent to New Orleans, but we have a little problem down there.

Jason Chaffetz

Nearly 30 million people ride Amtrak each year, and they should board the trains knowing that safety is a paramount priority.

David Gunn

If Amtrak fails, intercity passenger rail will be gone in this country, ... If we can't make it at Amtrak, we're all in trouble.

Brian Floca

I should say that I usually have a good experience on Amtrak. Still, if Amtrak could replace electric horns with steam whistles, they could make big strides. A horn is a horn is a horn, but a steam whistle is a voice and a song. People used to know which engineer was running which engine based on the call of the whistle.

Corrine Brown

Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system.

Corrine Brown

If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why.

Gary Sease

We expect to resume operations early Thursday evening. Amtrak service will resume after midnight.

Cliff Black

There are pluses for both Amtrak and its passengers.

Fred Powell

We took Amtrak down there. We were trying to get out before the hurricane, but Amtrak stopped running early. There were no flights out. All the rental cars were gone. We had no way out.

Peter Scobie

Minority governments can find it more difficult to pass policy. There is the possibility of delays in implementing anything.

Chris Riley

With weather delays in Chicago, it's a good option to go to St. Louis. This increases opportunity for travel to all destinations from Decatur.

Boris Yeltsin

We lack rubles, and that's where the delays come from,

Leclerc Buffon

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Dan Brucker

We're trying to recover from it. We took some hits from it, with some delays and some mechanical difficulties from the cold.

Terry Riley

Throughout the evening I would be recording these long saxophone delays and about four hours into the concert, if I wanted to take a break I would just play back the saxophone.

John Conley

We know it's a dynamic situation, but it's totally premature to talk about delays or postponement. Runners need to be prepared and dress for the weather.

David Gordon

Historically, packaging has been one of the major delays for us in getting product out the door.

Buddy Bell

I think the two rain delays didn't help matters.

Author unknown

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

Dana Keeton

We're interviewing passengers and are not saying anything more until we're sure what happened.

Larry Black

When we arrived, the two passengers were walking around,

Derek Fisher

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

Anthony Foxx

Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.

Dave Adams

We only react when there is a threat to the aircraft, passengers or crew.

Shivraj Patil

A plan to protect passengers and railway property, often targeted by Maoist rebels, is underway.

Anthony Foxx

It is unacceptable for passengers to be stranded in planes on the tarmac for hours on end.

Billy Jones

It was too dark. The passengers couldn't see the stone-throwers' faces.

Rhonda Bright

We want them to speak up on what they want in terms of service and care.

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

TR Harlan

She can do everything. Her service killed us. The way she started the match, that put us back on our heels.

Edgar Mitchell

If we don't take care of our customers, someone else will.

Dick Miller

We want to make sure they understand it's not just a social thing but a service organization.

David Turangal

We've survived 50 years because of our service.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Sebastian Thrun

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

Daryl Manning

We shared some stories, got to know each other.

Kristi Boese

We did it on our own. We didn't want to share anything.

Jane Austen

I must have my share in the conversation…

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

Charlotte Bronte

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

Charles E. Wilson

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

Charles Dickens

Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering

Charles Dickens

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Caleb Colton

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

Don Cheadle

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.

David Shore

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

David McCullough

We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.

Kate Bush

I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.

Tom Jenkinson

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.

Kyle Freeman

There are a lot more tracks in the woods.

Chris Powell

It's going to give our speedway one of the most competitive tracks on the circuit.

Meg Scheu

We have slowed trains down through the area.

Janice Min

I feel we could do more with this, ... Do we know who she trains with?

Andrew Flintoff

I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties.

Irvine Welsh

Choose life … I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?

Russell Tovey

In New York, the trains run all night, and the cabs are so cheap.