Freight Quotes - Page 1

I'm like a race horse attached to a freight wagon.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Horse
Race
Attached
Freight
Wagon
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I never predict freight rates; nobody can do that.
Soren Skou /
Predict
Freight
Rates
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If we drive cost down, we will be able to live with low freight rates.
Soren Skou /
Cost
Freight
Low
Rates
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Sea freight is by far the cheapest, most economical way to move goods.
Soren Skou /
Goods
Sea
Cheapest
Economical
Far
Freight
Move
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There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!
Mariah Carey / Singer
End Of The Tunnel
Hopefully
Light
Positive Thinking
Train
Tunnels
Light End Of The Tunnel End
End
Freight
Tunnel
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I had a wacky job driving a forklift for an air freight company. That was the worst.
Kurt Vile / Singer-Songwriter
Wacky
Freight
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Less revenue, more people, more freight, more gridlock - that is not a formula for success.
Anthony Foxx / United States Secretary Of Transportation
Revenue
Freight
More People
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It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.
Merle Haggard / Singer
Car
Raised
Song
Sound
Woody
Freight
Guthrie
Sounds
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I liken Sleater-Kinney to a freight train. It felt like this incredible, forward-moving, powerful energy.
Janet Weiss /
Freight
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To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
G. Willow Wilson / Writer
Ongoing
Pray
Steer
Downhill
Freight
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I grew up in Cleveland, so my heart got attached at a young age to the freight train of sadness that is Cleveland sports.
Anthony Doerr / Author Of Novels
Cleveland
Sadness
Young Age
Attached
Freight
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Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
Hesiod / Poet
Admire
Greater
Literature
Load
Profit
Ships
Freight
Small
Large
Ship
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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt / 26Th U.s. President
Education
Graduation
Car
Gone
May
Patriotic
School
Senior
University
Whole
Man
He
Freight
Railroad
Steal
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Freight
Trains
Paying
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I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
Valentino Garavani / Fashion Designer
Details
Staying
Track
Years
Freight
Twisting
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No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.
James H. Clark /
Gates
Internet
Bill
Bill Gates
Claim
Coming
Freight
Hear
How Much
Missed
Otherwise
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Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.
Bill Lipinski / Former United States Representative
Bridges
Funding
Gaps
Highways
Long
Long Way
Mass
Rail
Bridge
Freight
Passenger
Roads
Transit
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The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.
Susan Faludi / Journalist
Divorced
Movement
Neighborhood
Suburbs
Wonder
Freight
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In the past, due to faulty economic policies like freight equalisation, resource-rich states like Odisha have suffered from the discriminatory policies of the Centre.
Naveen Patnaik / Writer
Centre
Due
Suffered
Discriminatory
Economic Policies
Faulty
Freight
Policies
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With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.
Dennis Hastert / Former Speaker Of The United States House Of Representatives
Moving On
Quality
Believe
Highways
Infrastructure
Moved On
Percent
Tied
Compete
Economists
Freight
Internationally
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As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make us think twice about changing addresses.
John Updike / Novelist
Boxes
Broken
Heavy
Moved
Weight
Twice
Address
Cardboard
Changing
Freight
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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.
Alan Huffman /
Pace
Rail
Delays
Enable
Freight
Maddening
Trains
Slow
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Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.
Bill Lipinski / Former United States Representative
Capacity
Congestion
Constraints
Important
Issues
Mobility
Rail
Sexy
Freight
Issue
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There is scarcely an instant that passes over our heads that may not have its freight of infamy. How ought we to watch over our thoughts, that we may not so much as imagine any enormity!
William Godwin / Journalist
Infamy
Instant
Ought
Enormity
Freight
Heads
Passes
Scarcely
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I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!
Laura Bell Bundy / Film Actress
Dizzy
Live In The Moment
Moving
Trying
Freight
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As I started to develop as a director, I wanted to do projects that were inherently more cinematic, where the freight was not so much in the dialogue, where it would be carried more by the camera.
Marshall Brickman / Screenwriter
Cinematic
Dialogue
Carried
Freight
Inherently
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On issues carrying as much emotional freight as race - and there aren't many - a U.S. senator needs to speak with care and consistency. Otherwise, he could find people speaking at his own retirement tribute.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Consistency
Emotional
Race
Retirement
Tribute
Carrying
Senator
Freight
Otherwise
Speaking
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Our priority has always been to have the lowest cost so we can be comfortable with weak freight rates. A big part of having the lowest cost is maintaining the largest network, and this means growing market share.
Soren Skou /
Comfortable
Cost
Lowest
Maintaining
Share
Weak
Big Part
Freight
Largest
Market Share
Network
Rates
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My uncle was skipper on the old Claymore sailing out from Oban to the Inner Hebrides. My father worked for MacBraynes all his life, on freight boats and then on ferries crossing to Skye, Barra, Uist, the small isles and Iona.
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Sailing
Crossing
Boats
Freight
Inner
Uncle
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My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.
Bill Moseley /
Chicago
Consciousness
Employment
Grandfather
Illinois
Manufacturing
Pragmatic
Transportation
Freight
Tank
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As we look at a future where we're going to have to double our freight capacity, how do you create a freight system that's integrated across the country when you have 50 different freight systems that are built one state at a time?
Anthony Foxx / United States Secretary Of Transportation
Capacity
Integrated
Double
Future Time Look
Freight
Systems
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I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.
Peter Beard / Artist
Blinded
Bones
Elephants
Noon
Popping
Sun
Bright
Chicken
Freight
Walked
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I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company, A. P. Moller-Maersk, is Denmark's largest company, its sales equal to 20 percent of Denmark's GDP; its ships use more oil than the entire nation.
Rose George / Journalist
Coca Cola
Company
Denmark
Equal
Fame
Fascinating
Gdp
Oil
Parent
Percent
Ships
Nation
Entire
Freight
Largest
None
Sales
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So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. And I actually put a thousand dollars in it and I remember I thought this air cargo was going to be a thing of the future.
Peter Lynch / Businessman
Air
Cargo
College
Dollars
Flying
Study
Thousand
Freight
Looked
Tiger
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I knew a gentleman who was 65 who had a consulting firm outside of Kansas City, Mo. I convinced him to sell me the business, which did auditing and reviewing of freight bill charges, for nothing down. It was a step out of working in this bureaucratic setting of corporate America and going out on my own in 1984.
David Steward /
Consulting
Corporate
Corporate America
Firm
Setting
Business Me Step
Bureaucratic
Charges
Freight
Business City Me
Reviewing
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Hyperloop can improve life dramatically for the 16 million people in the greater Moscow area, cutting their commute to a fraction of what it is today. Our longer term vision is to work with Russia to implement a transformative new Silk Road: a cargo Hyperloop that whisks freight containers from China to Europe in a day.
Shervin Pishevar /
Cargo
Cutting
Moscow
Russia
Silk
Life Work Today
Commute
Dramatically
Fraction
Freight
Implement
Million People
Transformative
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I worked for Union Pacific. I started out as a conductor at an intermodal switching facility outside of Salt Lake City. We'd pull in trains from all over the country, break them apart, consolidate the freight, and build other trains. It was great until I screwed up and took a management position. Then it became no fun very quickly.
Sturgill Simpson / Singer-Songwriter
Conductor
Facility
Management
Pacific
Salt
Salt Lake City
Switching
Consolidate
Freight
Lake
Trains
No Fun
Union
Pull
Screwed
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Mostly I listen to old-time music, some bluegrass, some Americana stuff, too many to name. But of the younger acts, there are The Freight Hoppers, who were big in the '90s, and The Foghorn Stringband from Oregon, and there's a lot of young string bands coming up now, basically punkers who play acoustic instruments forming new bands.
Tommy Ramone / Record Producer
Americana
Bluegrass
Instruments
Old Time
Oregon
Acoustic
Acts
Forming
Freight
String
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