Subway Quotes
Subway Quote of the day
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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're going.
I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.
But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.
I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.
I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.
And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear.
New York is so diverse. When you're on the street or in the subway, you're experiencing more of the diversity of New York.
Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.
You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.
In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.
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.
In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.
Thank you... fat dude with giant headphones on the subway, for looking like what would've happened if Jabba the Hutt mated with Princess Leia.
I feel worthless. My girlfriend was attacked on the subway yesterday. And I can't even enjoy it.
I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn't matter to a certain segment of the populace.
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.
I would never jump under a subway car because that would delay all the people behind me. How inconsiderate!
I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.
I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.
Everyone has this sense of togetherness right now. For example, one guy on the subway today, he wanted to share my pants.
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.
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.
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?
I tell children from all over the country that it's good to eat healthy and nothing to be ashamed about. They know me from the Subway commercials and can relate to what I'm saying.
When I first moved to New York, someone who thought they knew more than I did said: "You have to always look like you know where you're going when you get out of the subway."
Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.
I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.
I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world.
I grew up on the bus, or riding my bike, or catching the subway, I've never had a car. In college, any girl I ever dated had a car, too.
I think if you meet the right person in life and you fall in love, that is a miracle. My husband saw me on the subway. That is a miracle!
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.
From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.
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.
I once asked a policeman how far it was to the subway. he said, "I don't know, no one has ever made it".
People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.
Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.
I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.
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.
People always ask me what I'm doing on the subway, but I love it! Sometimes I like to ride in the front car and look out the window at the rats.
There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.
I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.
