Locomotive Quotes

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. (Orison Swett Marden)
The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together. View quote
Rick Riordan
Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive. View quote
Eric Massa
Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest. View quote
George Combe
In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources. View quote
Jan Egeland
The consciousness of brutes would appear to be related to the mechanism of their body simply as a collateral product of its working, and to be as completely without any power of modifying that working as the steam-whistle which accompanies the work of a locomotive engine is without influence upon its machinery. Their volition, if they have any, is an emotion indicative of physical changes, not a cause of such changes. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive. View quote
Rahm Emanuel
No one yet has learned to drive a locomotive sitting in his study. View quote
Leon Trotsky
It's like a steam locomotive or a stone axe: just because it's obsolete doesn't make it any less of an achievement, or any less fit for purpose. View quote
Charles Stross
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
I'm his locomotive and he's my shield. (Karen Marie Moning)
Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same people who like to watch the locomotive coming and get run down in the name of discipline. View quote
Jeremy Grantham
Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive. View quote
Joe Perry
Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive. View quote
John Moody
It is a fact, that though a Scotchman be the most locomotive of individuals - there is scarcely a habitable part of the globe where he is not to be found - yet nothing ever weakens his attachment to his country. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The launch vehicle, a fantailed Soyuz-FG, had been towed horizontally across the steppe on a special train, complete with smoke-belching locomotive, to the launch pad.... The contrast with the NASA way of doing things was stark.... Doob's youngest son was distracted by the sight of stray dogs copulating a hundred meters away from ground zero. The launch bunker, shockingly close to the pad, had a little vegetable patch where the technicians were growing cucumbers and tomatoes. View quote
Neal Stephenson
I've been accused of being a shell designer - you start with a machine and enclose it. But in many cases, the shell is essential. A locomotive without a shell would be nonfunctional. View quote
Raymond Loewy