I've been accused of being a shell designer - you start with a machine and enclose it. But in many cases, the shell is essential. A locomotive without a shell would be nonfunctional.
In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.
Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.
Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.
Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same people who like to watch the locomotive coming and get run down in the name of discipline.
Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.