A Quote by Christopher Morley

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Christopher Morley

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Critic Crossing Goes Gong Loudly Railroad Train

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Christopher Morley
American - Novelist
May 5, 1890 - March 28, 1957

The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is no walk in the park or mere drum-beating and gong-clanging.

Xi Jinping

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Paul the Apostle

Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?' If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn’t sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information.

Margaret Mitchell

The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

Sam Keen

The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.

Allen Ginsberg

I mean, the power of water to lift cars is amazing. A creek backed up near a railroad track. And an entire train was lifted off of the railroad track and dumped over. People just need to make sure they do not drive into water. It floats the cars, and then we have deaths because of it.

Jay Nixon

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but am note nice, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but am not nice, I am nothing. If I give all I posses to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but am not nice, I gain nothing.

Benjamin Carson

A lot of people, when they first hear about the Underground Railroad, think it really is a subway or a locomotive. When they find out it's not, they feel a little disappointed. So I thought, What if it was a literal underground train network traveling from state to state, with each state it goes through representing a different opportunity or danger?

Colson Whitehead

[Jeb Bush] could, as I describe it, run the railroad.[John] Kasich could run the railroad. Hillary Clinton can run the railroad. Running the railroad is the most important thing. You have got 4 million employees; you've got to make the system work, and it doesn't work very well.

Michael Bloomberg

Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind.

Toni Morrison

I know plenty of people in China who don't like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don't want to entrust their data to the Falun Gong, either.

Rebecca MacKinnon

I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.

Charlaine Harris

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

Kurt Vonnegut

Finally I got to carbon, and as you all know, in the case of carbon the reaction works out beautifully. One goes through six reactions, and at the end one comes back to carbon. In the process one has made four hydrogen atoms into one of helium. The theory, of course, was not made on the railway train from Washington to Ithaca ... It didn't take very long, it took about six weeks, but not even the Trans-Siberian railroad [has] taken that long for its journey.