Subway Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.

  Andrew Bird

  Fun, Musician, Done

  "The Multi-Instrumentalist Returns". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.

  Lena Dunham

  Funny, People, Shows

  "Lena Dunham: from YouTube sensation to film and TV stardom". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2012.

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• 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.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Princess, Giants, Fats

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• Most fast-food workers can't easily join a union, because they don't work directly for their parent company, such as McDonald's or Subway. Instead, they work for individual franchise owners, ensuring that each individual fast-food outlet would have to organize and win union recognition separately. So there's not one central employer to bargain with, as in a traditional union campaign.

  David Rolf

  Winning, Mcdonalds, Parent

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Suicide, Girl Interrupted, Kitchen

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.37, Vintage

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• 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.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Strong, Keys, Doe

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• You transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person's nose whenever you see one until at some point they assert: "No, I'm a person. You can't fix my underpants on the subway."

  Tina Fey

  Mother, Transition, Noses

  "Tina Fey Reveals All (And Then Some) In 'Bossypants'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 13, 2011.

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• Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.

  Patrick Carney

  Depressing, Cities, People

  "The Black Keys". Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• 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.

  Taylor Kitsch

  Nice, Mean, Opposites

  "A Gambit fit for a superhero: Taylor Kitsch is no ordinary mutant". Interview with Ethan Sacks, www.nydailynews.com. May 1, 2009.

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• Being in New York City is the best because I'm always walking, taking the subway and walking up and down the stairs - whether you like it or not, you're going to get exercise.

  Ana Ortiz

  New York, Exercise, Cities

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• 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.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Girl, Actresses, Normal

  "Gabourey Sidibe Interview THE BIG C". Interview, collider.com. August 17, 2010.

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• When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood.

  Hedi Slimane

  Home, Kids, Jeans

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• Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. ... poetry has been the major voice of poor, working class, and Colored women. A room of one's own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewriter, and plenty of time.

  Audre Lorde

  Art, Writing, Typewriters

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• I like street performance because it's garbage time. The subway is garbage time: no one can say I'm wasting their time because they've already thrown that time into the subway. If they don't want to see me they can go to the other end of the platform. But on the street I do feel this disgust towards the audience: why would you waste your time looking at me? Why are you being so respectful of me? You should attack me.

  Kalan Sherrard

  Want, Garbage, Waste

  "Hyper subtle sexual ego". Interview with Peter Nowogrodzki, logger.believermag.com. June 4, 2014.

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• It's easy to be cynical; harder is remembering that on any given day the person beside you on the subway or taking to long to pay for a tub of yogurt at the supermarket could be going through something tremendous and sorrowful and arduous.

  Rob Payne

  Long, Cynical, Yogurt

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 33, 2003.

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• I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.

  Paulo Costanzo

  New York, People, East

  "Royal Pains Q&A: Paulo Costanzo". The Morning Call Interview, www.mcall.com. May 20, 2009.

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• The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Every time I see a pretty young girl on the subway reading sides for an audition, my only thought is, 'Man, am I glad I'm not doing that anymore.' I never feel nostalgia, just relief.

  Mara Wilson

  Girl, Reading, Men

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• A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Moving, Book, Way

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• I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.

  Nellie McKay

  Play, Being Ignored, The End Of The Day

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• This city has so many beautiful women. I fall in love like every ten minutes, I'm sitting on the subway, I'm like, "There's my wife... there she is - oh, she's getting off. All right, there's the woman - all right, that's a man."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Beautiful, Falling In Love

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• I don't like to go into subways, because I always see them [ mice]. They are like my naguales [kindred animal spirits]. They follow me. I have literally stepped off of a plane in Phoenix and gotten my bag and stepped out on the curb and they'll be a big desert rat walking right in front of me.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Animal, Phoenix, Desert

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• When I'm taking the subway to my improv shows I will be writing in my notebook different actions that I see people doing on the train whether it's eating yogurt or looking at where their stop is, or tripping or holding a baby. It's not preparing scenes and ideas as much as it is stoking your brain to think observantly. Just to place observations in your head, so that they are available somewhere.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Notebook, Baby, Writing

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