Famous quotes containing the words railway and/or narrow:
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understandmy mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arms length.”
—Angela Carter (19401992)
“When I say artist I dont mean in the narrow sense of the wordbut the man who is building thingscreating molding the earthwhether it be the plains of the westor the iron ore of Penn. Its all a big game of constructionsome with a brushsome with a shovelsome choose a pen.”
—Jackson Pollock (19121956)