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  • In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the baby's crib. In hospitals we do not take the food trolleys right through the operating chamber, and we rarely have the recreation room next to the convalescent room. We sort out the functions. We have to sort out the functions of the city and the streams of traffic and re-create arterial systems that allow us to breathe ... the shape, pattern and sense of community which you expect if it were a home.

    Baby   Home   Cities  
  • There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

    Love   Happy Friday   Two  
  • The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.

    Princess   Men   Ghouls  
    Irvine Welsh (1998). “Filth”, Random House (UK)
  • I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

    Birthday   Mother   Past  
    "Question time". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2003.
  • I had an experience in a restaurant one time where there was a large trolley with beef being carved up, and I just transposed different images onto it. Like, what if there was a nice little cow there with a bowtie and a knife carving up humans. I was a vegetarian for a couple of years after that.

    Couple   Nice   Years  
    Interview with Kate and Laura Mulleavy, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2014.
  • And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street!

    John Betjeman, “Business Girls”
  • The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

    Library   Needs   Use  
    "Libraries; addresses and essays".
  • I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child’s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy. He enjoyed food and drink. He liked to try new things. He brought home coconuts, papayas, mangoes, and urged them on our reluctant conservative selves. On Sundays he liked to discover new places, take us on endless bus or trolley rides to some new park or beach he knew about. He always counseled daring, in whatever situation, the courage to test the unknown, an instruction that was thematically in opposition to my mother’s.

    Mother   Beach   Children  
    E.L. Doctorow (2010). “World's Fair: A Novel”, p.15, Random House
  • Anyone who thinks Ryanair flights are some sort of bastion of sanctity where you can contemplate your navel is wrong. We already bombard you with as many in-flight announcements and trolleys as we can.

    Sleep   Thinking   Looks  
    "On the plane that lets you dial at 30,000ft" by Cahal Milmo, www.independent.co.uk. February 20, 2009.
  • You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.

    "Geldof back in Ethiopia" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2003.
  • I went to lose a jolly, Hour on the trolley, And lost my heart instead...

    Heart   Hours   Lost  
    "Song: The Trolley Song". Performed in the musical film "Meet Me in St. Louis" by Judy Garland, November 22, 1944.
  • The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a really stupid sin because it’s the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There’s a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you want to get on that trolley?

    Fun   Pain   Stupid  
  • And do I look like the kind of man that can be intimidated?" barked Uncle Vernon. "Well..." said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to reveal his sinisterly revolving eye. Uncle Vernon lept backward in horror and collided painfully with a luggage trolley. "Yes, I'd have to say you do, Dursley.

    Uncles   Eye   Men  
  • My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.

    Mother   Cousin   Eight  
  • Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens.

  • It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.

    Running   Car   Medical  
  • What's the difference between the Lib-Dems and a supermarket trolley? A supermarket trolley has a mind of its own.

  • We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

    Car   Religion   Use  
  • I remember in 37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

    New York   Air   Car  
  • He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.

    Book   Eye   Wizards  
    Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.229, Random House
  • In the week before a race, I try to stay away from germ areas. I keep disinfectant wipes in my bag for when I have to use a supermarket trolley or something like that.

    Race   Trying   Bags  
  • ...he had a fascinating technique of gnawing his cigar from one corner of his mouth to the other, as if his teeth were equipped with trolley tracks, and suddenly grabbing it out and gesticulating wit it before he jammed it back.

    Track   Technique   Teeth  
  • This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

    Reality   Sight   Self  
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