#express

The great trains are going out all over Europe, one by one, but still, three times a week, the Orient Express thunders superbly over the 1,400 miles of glittering steel track between Istanbul and Paris. Under the arc-lights, the long-chassied German locomotive panted quietly with the labored breath of a dragon dying of asthma. Each heavy breath seemed certain to be the last. Then came another. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#dragon #locomotive #orient-express #train #love

Never dull your shine for somebody else. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#confidence #inspirational #self-expression #shine #inspirational

If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time. ↗

— Linda Ellerbee

#inspiration #self-expression #inspirational

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#done #express #himself #his #honestly

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#expressed #opinion #order #truth

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#been #declining #england #expressed #higher

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it. ↗

— Mary Ritter Beard

#energy #expression #hunger #life #narrowly

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#brain #expression #going #his #joke

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#any #beyond #end #express #eyes

I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it. ↗

— Terri Clark

#album #artist #did #express #few