Quotes with tracks

  • People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

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  • H.G. Wells Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Calvin Harris Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Agnetha Faltskog I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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  • Carl D. Anderson Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
    Carl D. Anderson
    American physicist
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  • Buddy Rice Mile tracks put more emphasis on the driver. On the longer tracks, you can drive flat out all the way around, so it's more of an engineering exercise. On a mile, you can't run flat out. You're constantly in traffic, there's more driver involvement.
    Buddy Rice
    American racecar driver (1976 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Monorail tracks are prefabricated and can be erected relatively quickly: Simply dig a hole every 120 feet or so, plop down a column, and lift the track into place. Because the systems operate above traffic, collisions with errant motorists are never an issue. The trains are automated, saving millions in labor costs in the long run.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair.
    Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere.
    We've got one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on some wheels.
    Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks.
    Born To Run (1975) Thunder Road
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Casey Wilson So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Camille Paglia The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • René Daumal Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Rex Steven Sikes What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think ''I can't.''
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  • Lord George Byron Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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