Subway Quotes

I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.

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.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown.

Learning operatic roles is ongoing, and I find that I can learn on the train or subway, during a manicure, getting my hair done, and even while driving if I only look at the score at red lights.

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats.

No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

You don't look at each other on the subway.

It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

When I came into office, people said, 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?' Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It's not an issue.

On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

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.

I think it's easy for directors to stay fresh more than actors, especially once an actor becomes a star. It's hard for Russell Crowe to walk down a street or take a subway. I can fly coach.

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.

I get recognised sometimes. But I just live my life. I get on the bus, I get on the subway, it's not a problem.

Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up.

I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress... I got lost on the subway.

I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.

My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house calls. We were living in Flushing, which was then a sleepy village of 25,000 - before the subway got there. I've been sure I wanted to be a doctor since I was about 12.

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

I like taking the subway to work.

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

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.

I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great job, Mayor,' that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn't find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling - I think they should see the doctor.

I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.

I've always lived in a city. I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.