Subway Quotes

185 Subway quotes by 165 unique authors

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
Wonderful, Annabeth thought. Her own mother, the most levelheaded Olympian, was reduced to a raving, vicious scatterbrain in a subway station. And, of all the… — Rick Riordan
In 2003, he was hit by a subway in Prague and lost both of his legs. It made me realize that we take for granted… — Unknown Author
When I ride the subway back and forth, sometimes I look at the other passengers and wonder if any of them are children who have… — Marcus Samuelsson
My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We moved to the Bronx when I… — Mildred S. Dresselhaus
I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places… — Kate McKinnon
If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting… — Noam Chomsky
The only pleasurable part of taking the subway, as everyone will agree, is concocting elaborate fantasies about what it would be like to be married… — Russell Smith
Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form silent opinions based… — David Rakoff
There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway… — Dana Schutz
When my son first started to take the subway, my husband and I used to follow him to make sure he was all right, and… — Julianne Moore

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