The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most beautiful machine that we ever made, there's just nothing like it.

You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

You can't move the sun, and you can't even move the tracks, so you have to do something else to better light the engines.

I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

Winston, I don't know what I want, but I want you to go out and get it. When I see it, I'll know if it's what I thought I wanted. (Quoting a photography client.)

I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.

Thought is the supreme power. The right question will have the right answer.

Are you her boyfriend?” ... No, I’m her fiancé.” Nate said. We’ve been promised to each other since birth,” Summer added. Our wedding isn’t until March.

An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation.

Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

I'm going to go wherever I'm needed.

Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will endure.

I don't care if you are a good mathematician, or a good athletic, or not good at anything- that you think. But I'm gonna come and tell you that you're awesome the way you are.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.