Subway Quotes

185 quotes by 165 authors

And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway… — Jhumpa Lahiri
However, I have never clogged myself with the praises of pastoral life, nor with nostalgia for an innocent past of perverted acts in pastures. No.… — Frank O'Hara
I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or… — Charles de Lint
Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same sort of company as people… — Mary Roach
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… — Ray Bradbury
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… — Ray Bradbury
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?… — Jean-Dominique Bauby
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… — Naomi Shihab Nye
Demon slayers take the subway? — Cassandra Clare
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.… — Mohsin Hamid
The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the… — Flannery O'Connor
New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride… — Jay-Z
And Annie showed me how ailanthus trees grow under subway and sewer gratings, stretching toward the sun, making shelter in the summer, she said, laughing,… — Nancy Garden
As Val jumped down onto the litter-strewn concrete after them, she thought how insane it was to follow two people she didn't know into the… — Holly Black
You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs,… — Kiran Desai
Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman… — Pat Conroy
Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And… — Arthur Miller
If you're heading downtown from Centeral Park, my advice is to take the subway. Flying pigs are faster but way more dangerous — Rick Riordan
Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the… — Joe Queenan
New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for… — David Levithan

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