Subway Quotes
185 quotes by 165 authors
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Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that…
— Billy Wilder
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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…
— Peter Thiel
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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,…
— Dhani Jones
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We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads…
— Nikola Tesla
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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…
— Sophia Amoruso
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People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
— Simeon Strunsky
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If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.
— Stanley Crouch
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The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of…
— Mary McCarthy
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In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not…
— Lyman Abbott
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I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers…
— Irwin Shaw
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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...…
— Haruki Murakami
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I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe. There she goes, backpack on,…
— Lena Dunham
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I had a very old woman come up to me on the subway and tell me that the faces that I made in the first…
— Zosia Mamet
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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…
— Tablo
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Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering…
— Jeffrey Rosen
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I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.
— Liz Murray
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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…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Really the truth is just a plain picture. A plain picture of, let's say, a tramp vomiting in the sewere. You know, and next door…
— Bob Dylan
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I am a Black revolutionary woman, and because of this i have been charged with and accused of every alleged crime in which a woman…
— Assata Shakur
Who Wrote These Subway Quotes
165 authors contributed a total of 185 Subway Quotes, led by these top contributors: