Top 980 Railroad Tracks Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The tracks on 'Sleep' were recorded live to 2-track. I did a fadeout or two of them, but that's really it.

My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.

When you hear tracks everybody immediately thinks that nobody is really playing or singing. That's not the case at all.

So many bands play to tracks - what's the point in coming to see them live if they're playing to a CD?

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can't deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.

Growing up too fast and I do recall, Wishin' time would stop right in it's tracks.

I love to just get in the booth. Put some tracks down. I’m basically Rihanna.

The Clash is pretty much my favorite band, and their songs like 'Rock the Casbah' are political dance tracks.

The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive.

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

I love exploring the hypnotic elements of music, and because of that there are very long tracks on 'Immunity.'

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand.

I work out hard, and I do things that I feel make me better throughout the race and after the race. And I feel better mentally because of working out, being prepared and being in great shape. Driving the car, I think with reflexes and things throw at your so quickly, you have to make adjustments - the feeling of your car, the heat. Some tracks can be tough on your neck and arms, and other tracks, not so much. I think there's a lot there that definitely takes some athletic ability, and I think that helps being athletic and being prepared like that. It helps me for sure.

We've sung to prerecorded tracks and things like that, but we've never done a proper world tour with a band and everything.

My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

I have some tracks and songs written for future collaboration, and I'm happy to work with artists who have the right voice and taste.

The promise of artificial intelligence and computer science generally vastly outweighs the impact it could have on some jobs in the same way that, while the invention of the airplane negatively affected the railroad industry, it opened a much wider door to human progress.

I think that with me and Madlib, I was never afraid to really experiment with his tracks and things.

I wasn't ever a massive David Essex fan, but I liked a few of his tracks, and Stardust was one of them.

"Suffragette" is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fight for the right to vote.

Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.

When things start running a bit too well on the tracks, I tend to derail them if I can.

When I am offered a film, I don't ask whether I will be singing any of the movie's tracks.

I've been this voice of a lot of upbeat dance tracks, but people don't really know me.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, which has probably informed the way that I sing on my tracks.

I did as much as I could: raising chickens, pushing an ice-cream cart, bagging walnuts, driving a tractor on a beet farm, working on the railroad. I think this eclectic career helped me a lot in life.

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

I don't think I have a great voice, but I started singing on my tracks and they did a lot better. So I thought, 'let's give this a go then!'

'Zone One' has one kind of an apocalypse, and 'The Underground Railroad' another. In both cases, the narrators are animated by a hope in a better place of refuge - in the last surviving human outpost, Up North. Does it exist? They can only believe.

Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.

Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.

I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for.

Everyone else is following these male and female tracks that have already been set for them, but when you're trans there is no trail.

The Underground Railroad, which was the first integrated civil rights movement, is a part of our history that not a lot of us know about. And it's actually a very empowering side of our history.

Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.

Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and adventure of the great white North.

I think most albums should be 13 tracks, to be fair. It's a matter of interest. It's quality over quantity.

As a white, female, half-Jewish writer, when I read 'The Underground Railroad,' it reminded me that America isn't just the sort of Sesame Street that I grew up with that tolerated and embraced diversity in the Northeast, but in fact was built on the foundation of slavery.

Most games follow a real railroad plot, no matter what you want, you're following their storyline to its unavoidable conclusion. I'd like to write a game where your character can follow any number of possible story arcs and sub-plots.

If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into.

The farm is one field to the east of the railroad track that used to connect New Orleans with Chicago. The track runs beside Highway 45, an old U.S. route that unites Chicago with Mobile, Alabama.

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

There is room and time for multiple tracks to flesh out in the web space. I enjoy this format.

If you live up against train tracks, it can make your life a living hell.

Certain key words, like, 'break it down,' 'this is how we do it' - they'll always end up on my tracks.

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.

I don't think of myself as a movie star. I'm a movie worker. I come from a railroad family. I come from the corn.

Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond, Canada was certainly an additional option for the many traveling the treacherous terrain of the Underground Railroad in pursuit of what was perceived as "freedom."

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand

If I smell a burger stand I get nervous. It takes me back to BMX tracks as a kid.

Anyone who's been reading my stuff can see that there's a lot of tracks being laid for future stories.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

I record a lot of stuff on my phone when I'm out and about and regularly use the recordings in my tracks.

I've always wanted to write about the other side of the tracks, the have-nots, maybe because that's who I was.

During the Civil War, the Underground Railroad became a spy network, so we could still have fresh stories for these characters years into the future, with desperate people still doing desperate things.

The Chinamen built the railroad, the Indians saved the Pilgrim, And in return, the Pilgrim killed 'em. They call it it Thanksgiving, I call your holiday 'hell-day.'

Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.