Subway Quotes - Page 3

• I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Hate, People, Listening

  "Why Are We So Afraid of Silence?" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2013.

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• Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

  Mindy Kaling

  Adventure, Littles, Skirts

  "The Funny Side of Love". nymag.com. September 19, 2010.

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• The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built in 1903. The fact that they're still running at all is an enormous success. The fact that New York City's bridges have held up as long as they have is extraordinary, and the engineers didn't have computers to tell them about tolerance. They overbuilt these things - traffic on them is like an ant on an elephant.

  Alan Weisman

  Running, New York, Fall

  Source: www.today.com

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• We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?

  Jimmy Wales

  New York, Cities, Cheerful

  "Jimmy Wales: Digital Champion of Free Speech" by Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. August 03, 2014.

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• If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.

  Edward Norton

  Heart, Heart Attack, Ifs

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• I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Seats, Tubes

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• When I came into office, people said, 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?' Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It's not an issue.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Smile, Couple, Sleep

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• You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do that. But it's much more interesting to talk about books. After all, that's what life used to be for writers: they talk books, politics, history, America. Nothing has replaced that.

  Saul Bellow

  Book, America, Interesting

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• What do you do when you’re living in a hut for $500 a month and subsisting on Boston Market and Subway? You just keep doing what you’re doing.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Boston, Months, Huts

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• Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Listening, Trying

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• A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Football, Business, People

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• I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping. I don't like to go into subways, because I always see them. Rats are like my naguales [kindred animal spirits]. They follow me.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Country, Animal, Camping

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.

  Eartha Kitt

  Poverty, Stills, Looking Down

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• Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.

  Calvin Trillin

  Home, Next Day, Stories

  "This Story Just Won't Write" by Calvin Trillin, www.newyorker.com. March 19, 2013.

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• I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

  Keri Russell

  Home, Wish, Brooklyn

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined spaces now. When one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway.

  Joe Biden

  Space, Way, Transportation

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• I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter from Alabama-would it come and what would it say?-my shabby suits, my poverty, and love. While my friends were launching decently into life I had muscled my inadequate bark into midstream... I was a failure-mediocre at advertising work and unable to get started as a writer. Hating the city, I got roaring, weeping drunk on my last penny and went home.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Hate, Home, Cities

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

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• The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

  Frank Ocean

  Song, Jobs, Writing

  "Frank Ocean: On Channel Orange, Meeting Odd Future, and His Tumblr Letter". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.

  Alex Karpovsky

  Balance, Trying, Loud

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I've definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Running, New York, Cities

  "Gillian Jacobs Talks Short Film IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME, Creating Her Own Original Content, COMMUNITY, BAD MILO, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 15, 2013.

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• Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.

  Immortal Technique

  Technique, Wonder, Multicultural

  "Song: 'Harlem Streets' ('Revolutionary Vol. 2')". 2003.

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• With so much sky and so much river, you couldn't help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but crowding into the subway or rushing to a movie, you only saw it for a second, and close up. Now I took a good long look. I'd always heard you couldn't see stars in Manhattan because of all the lights. But here they all were. Here was my night in shining armor.

  Melissa Bank

  Stars, Night, Light

  Melissa Bank (2006). “The Wonder Spot”, p.313, Penguin

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• New Year's Eve. It's a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our apartments and pick through snow in high heels, or descend subway stairs in tuxedos, lured to wherever we're going--whether we know it or not, would deny it or not--by the kiss of a stranger.

  Jardine Libaire

  New Year, Kissing, Night

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• A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife.

  Dana Gould

  Knives, Way, Conversation

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• If you're seeing a psychiatrist, you're wasting money because all you've got to do is get on a plane, get on a subway tomorrow and, inevitably, you're going to be seated in front of some guy who's playing with himself, and he'll be singing, 'Happy Days Are Here Again.' I tell you - when I see that guy, I feel pretty good about myself.

  Lewis Black

  Guy, Singing, Happy Day

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