Famous Statements
- Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.
- Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or statements:
“Up through the lubber crust of Wales
I rocketed to astonish
The flashing needle rock of squatters,
The criers of Shabby and Shorten,
The famous stitch droppers.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“There was books too.... One was “Pilgrim’s Progress,” about a man that left his family it didn’t say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)