High Speed Rail

Famous quotes containing the words high, speed and/or rail:

    “How high they build hospitals!
    Lighted cliffs, against dawns
    Of days people will die on.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don’t want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.”
    —Martin Amis (b. 1949)

    “Old man, it’s four flights up and for what?
    Your room is hardly any bigger than your bed.
    Puffing as you climb, you are a brown woodcut
    stooped over the thin rail and the wornout tread.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)