Subway Quotes - Page 8

• I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

  Douglas Kennedy

  New York, Writing, Two

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• I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got. Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that. It's the people around me that have changed. I love when I go to a restaurant and I walk past, and everyone waves. That's always really funny. It's strange. It just goes to show that whatever plan you have for your life, you are wrong, a lot of times.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Girl, Past, People

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• I would never jump under a subway car because that would delay all the people behind me. How inconsiderate!

  Signe Baumane

  People, Car, Delay

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I lived in Japan for about two years. I spent my time equally between religiously studying Aikido in Shinjuku by day and hard partying in Shibuya and Roppongi by night. On more than a few nights, those subways were my own personal stage coach to hell.

  Sturgill Simpson

  Party, Night, Japan

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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 subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Looks, Fiction, Garbage

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.630, Macmillan

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• 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, for the small dragons that live under the streets.

  Nancy Garden

  Summer, Dragons, Laughing

  Nancy Garden (2017). “Annie on My Mind”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• 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 bowels of the subway, but instead of being afraid, she felt glad. She would make all her own decisions now, even if they were ruinous ones. It was the same pleasurable feeling as tearing a piece of paper into tiny, tiny pieces.

  Holly Black

  Two, People, Decision

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.

  Pat Conroy

  Queens, Moving, Black

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• 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 it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still — that's how you build a future.

  Arthur Miller

  Summer, Morning, School

  Arthur Miller (2009). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.138, A&C Black

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• 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

  Pigs, Advice, Flying

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• 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 subway, or who do not want other people to see how they are amusing themselves, or who have storage and clutter issues, but they are useless for people who are engaged in an intense, lifelong love affair with books. Books that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on.

  Joe Queenan

  Love, Book, Smell

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• 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 gods who might help them, the only ones not affected by the Greek-Roman schism seemed to be Aphrodite, Nemesis and Dionysus. Love, revenge, wine. Very helpful.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Revenge, Wine

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• Haha, you lose! I got your delicious Subway sandwich Jerry 'stupid' Lawler!

  Santino Marella

  Stupid, Wrestling, Haha

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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, headed for the subway or the airport. She did her best with her eyeliner. She learned a new word she wants to try out on you. She is ambling along. She is looking for it.

  Lena Dunham

  Airports, Understanding, Trying

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.87, Random House

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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 episode when a guy is going down on me, that she still makes those faces when her husband goes down on her.

  Zosia Mamet

  Husband, Guy, Faces

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• If you are the type who truly longs to be a Southern Belle at all times, regardless of taking twice the space available in bus, subway or elsewhere, you had best remove yourself to a large estate replete with servants.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Space, Southern, Type

  Elizabeth Hawes (1954). “It's Still Spinach”

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• On the subway today, a man came up to me to start a conversation. He made small talk, a lonely man talking about the weather and other things. I tried to be pleasant and accommodating, but my head began to hurt from his banality. I almost didn't notice it had happened, but I suddenly threw up all over him. He was not pleased, and I couldn't stop laughing.

  John Doe

  Lonely, Hurt, Men

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• We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

  Paul Goldberger

  New York, Tunnels, Bridges

  "The Next American System". Blueprint America Interview, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2009.

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• They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

  Nate Berkus

  White, Kitchen, Steel

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• My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  New York, Dad, Mean

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• 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.

  Bill Frist

  Character, Blood, Justice

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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 an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.

  Gilbert Adair

  New York, Space, Rude

  Gilbert Adair (1986). “Myths & memories”, HarperCollins

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• Although it was constructed in 1536, the New York subway system boasts an annual maintenance budget of nearly $8, currently stolen, and it does a remarkable job of getting New Yorkers from Point A to an indeterminate location somewhere in the tunnel leading to point B.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Jobs, New York

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.66, Ballantine Books

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• I like taking the subway to work.

  John Stossel

  "John Stossel Scorched by The New York Times". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. November 4, 2009.

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• I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish.

  Meg Cabot

  Taken, School, Wish

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