Famous quotes containing the words cable cars, including, cable and/or cars:
“To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
—Douglass Cross (b. 1920)
“A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
—Douglass Cross (b. 1920)
“When, at rare intervals, some thought visits one, as perchance he is walking on a railroad, then, indeed, the cars go by without his hearing them. But soon, by some inexorable law, our life goes by and the cars return.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)