A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.

Abigail Spencer
Abigail Spencer

Florida surfers learn how to be great on mediocre waves. It trains you, gives you endurance.

Adam Mansbach
Adam Mansbach

The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.

Aditya Roy Kapur
Aditya Roy Kapur

People have been writing songs and poems since the time we had brains.

Alan Alda
Alan Alda

It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.

Alan C. Greenberg
Alan C. Greenberg

My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making what he should have. He had to split it with five brothers. So I made up my mind: I was going to go on my own and make my own money.

Alan Huffman
Alan Huffman

Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives.

Alan Huffman
Alan Huffman

My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis.

Alan Huffman
Alan Huffman

The slow pace of trains in the U.S. can be maddening, particularly during delays on rail sidings for an hour or more to enable freight trains - which have the right-of-way - to pass.