Subway Quotes - Page 2

• I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress... I got lost on the subway.

  Piper Perabo

  Waitress, Lost

  Interview with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2000.

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• I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Preference

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• I don't even believe in magic, or ghosts or anything like that, and yet in a city like New York, on the subway, I definitely see ghosts and art seems to have some magical properties.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, New York, Believe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You have as much computing power in your iPhone as was available at the time of the Apollo missions. But what is it being used for? It’s being used to throw angry birds at pigs; it’s being used to send pictures of your cat to people halfway around the world; it’s being used to check in as the virtual mayor of a virtual nowhere while you’re riding a subway from the nineteenth century.

  Peter Thiel

  Cat, Iphone, Pigs

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• We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?"

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Phones, People, Alternatives

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.

  Bill Geist

  New York, Reading, Cities

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• Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

  Ray Bradbury

  Relationship, I Like You, Years

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Nov 27, 2015

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• At the height of rush hour, people on the London underground actually say "excuse me." Imagine what would happen if you tried an insane stunt like that on the New York City subway. The other passengers would take it as a sign of weakness, and there'd be a fight over who got to keep your ears as a trophy.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, New York, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.104, Crown Archetype

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• If someday, in a morning, you see you, in a mirror or the dent of a spoon, and wonder Where is my soul and Where has it gone, remember this: Catch the gaze of a woman on the metro, subway, tram. Look at a man. Seek and you will find you in the silvered space, a flash between souls.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Morning, Men, Mirrors

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• I never leave home without my writing notebook, and get a lot of writing done in transit. One great place to create is while riding the subways of New York City, where I live.

  Andrea Davis Pinkney

  Notebook, New York, Home

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Fall, Color, Years

  Mohsin Hamid (2008). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.27, Penguin UK

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• When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

  Aaron Yoo

  New York, People, Inches

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• I could only shoot when the subway was on the other platform. Little things like that, and the platform is very narrow. It's not like you can hide if a subway comes so a lot of things happened because of that. Or a thousand people just came and looked straight into the lens like they didn't expect a movie to be shooting.

  Jaume Collet-Serra

  People, Lenses, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

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• But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they are going. Sometimes I even go to Fun parks and ride in the jet cars when they race on the edge of town at midnight and the police don't care as long as they're insured. As long as everyone has ten thousand insurance everyone's happy. Sometimes I sneak around and listen in subways. Or I listen at soda fountains, and do you know what? People don't talk about anything.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fun, Race, Long

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• People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn’t make sense how they’d laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone.

  Tablo

  Falling In Love, Believe, Love Is

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• I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

  Toni Morrison

  Character, Thinking, Problem

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• Demon slayers take the subway?

  Cassandra Clare

  Demon, Slayer

  Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Bones”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

  Jennifer Garner

  Squares, Pennies, Broke

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• Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.

  Dhani Jones

  Meaningful, Believe, Manhattan

  "Creating a Culture of Conversation" by Dhani Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.

  May Sarton

  Sweet, New York, Paris

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• For me, being on set is no different than being at a dinner table or riding the subway next to someone; inevitably their life story is always more compelling than most ads in magazines and most commercials and reality TV and all the stuff we're sold and told is valuable.

  Victoria Mahoney

  Reality, Tables, Dinner

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, New York, Tunnels

  Langston Hughes (2002). “Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”

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• My life is ticking away one subway token at a time - a never ending pirouette of arriving and departing, pushing through turnstiles, nodding goodbye and hello. In eight hours I'll be allowed to turn around and go home.

  Rob Payne

  Goodbye, Home, Eight

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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• No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

  Richard Linklater

  Asking, Care, Homeless

  "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview With David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• I wander though China. Without ever having boarded a plane. My travels take place here in the Tokoyo subways, in the backseat of a taxi... all of a sudden this city will start to go. In a flash, the buildings will crumble. Over the Tokyo streets will fall my China, like ash, leaching into everything it touches. Slowly, gradually, until nothing remains. No, this isn't a place for me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Cities, Ashes

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