The Subway Quotes: top 89 famous quotes about The Subway

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Within a week, I knew the subway systems, — Kristan Higgins

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. — Richard Linklater

Demon slayers take the subway? — Cassandra Clare

I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts. — Hannah Lillith Assadi

I like taking the subway to work. — John Stossel

When I was applying to college, my mother told me I could apply to any school within the Boston subway map. — Susan Estrich

Every day in New York City is a test. Work hard and pass this test, you get a chocolate cookie. From a strange man on the subway. A man without pants. — Christy Hall

I BURST THROUGH my office building's entrance, cursing the subway — Magda Alexander

I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic. — Joe Scarborough

There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways. — Jonathan Lethem

I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway. — Ira Glass

I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation. — Shepard Smith

We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?" — Douglas Rushkoff

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

Everyone has this sense of togetherness right now. For example, one guy on the subway today, he wanted to share my pants. — David Letterman

In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car. — Ethan Hawke

The train came, and Jules Jacobson stepped on and thought: I am the loneliest person in this subway car. — Meg Wolitzer

There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it. — Brian F. O'Byrne

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. — Aaron Yoo

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

If riding the bus or the subway doesn't incentivize you to improve your station in life, nothing will. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway. — Keri Russell

You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people. — Fran Lebowitz

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

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

A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife. — Dana Gould

I love you because
Five floor walk up
1 to the 2 to the E
Three avenues — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Don't sleep in the subway, darling. — Petula Clark

I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday. — Eddie Kaye Thomas

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

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. — Laura Linney

I started reading G. K. Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday' on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages. — Kate Christensen

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

If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary. — Russell Smith

I like to go to the subway and hear what people are thinking and feeling and what their concerns are. You learn so much that way. You really do. — Chirlane McCray

I like it when my five-year-old asks me if a woman in a burka on the subway is a ninja. — Jim Gaffigan

It's like the smell of bread baking at Subway. You know it's not the way nature or God intended it to smell, but something about it's addictive. — Lauren Oliver

I feel worthless. My girlfriend was attacked on the subway yesterday. And I can't even enjoy it. — Anthony Jeselnik

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

I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway. — Liz Murray

Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me. — O. Henry

I think if you meet the right person in life and you fall in love, that is a miracle. My husband saw me on the subway. That is a miracle! — Eva Marie Saint

So, what is the opposite of a "helicopter parent?" I wonder. A subway parent? A Sinking ship parent? A hibernating bear? — Wendy Wunder

If you're a die-hard "foodie," hop off the road in DuBois and enjoy a Subway sandwich made at a place that is eighty percent gas station. — Tina Fey

Do you think the guy on the subway that is touching himself feels like he's spreading love? I will tell you right now there is a law against that. — Sara Quinn

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever. — Salman Rushdie

Mullaney often took the subway to visit the client. His ride sometimes coincided with the end of the school day; — Steven D. Levitt

I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus. — Jordana Brewster

Newt Gingrich has criticized 'New York elites' who ride the subway. One of those subway elites threw up on my pants this morning. — David Letterman

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

Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing. — Rachel Zucker

I don't ride the subway. Either I walk, or I take a New York City taxi. — Nina Garcia

You can do some serious subway flirting before you realize the guy is homeless. — LIZ

I once asked a policeman how far it was to the subway. he said, "I don't know, no one has ever made it". — Rodney Dangerfield

I love New York, I love the smell of New York ... I love the subway. — Harold Ford Jr.

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

Subway is a real point of pride. We have influenced the way people eat. — Fred DeLuca

Whenever I can, in my study, on the subway, in bed before going to sleep, I immerse myself in Italian. I enter another land, unexplored, murky. A — Jhumpa Lahiri

This was the year he rode the subway to the ends of the city, two hundred miles of track. — Don DeLillo

Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship. — Immortal Technique

I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life. — Fran Lebowitz

I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations. — J. Courtney Sullivan

In those days, the main requirement to be on the Food Network was being able to get there by subway. — Bobby Flay

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

People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly. — Gary Shteyngart

People always ask me what I'm doing on the subway, but I love it! Sometimes I like to ride in the front car and look out the window at the rats. — John Waters

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

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. — Joan Allen

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people. — Zoe Kazan

Then, in this vanishingly small moment in the history of the universe, she took my hand, and held it all the way to the subway. — Graeme Simsion

The heart, that secret repository where needs and fears elbowed each other continuously like uncomfortable passengers in a crowded subway car... — Stephen King

I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represented in any given subway car. — Tim Daly

The rumble of a subway train,
the rattle of the taxis. — Al Dubin

Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway. — Karen Thompson Walker

amplified siren. I make it to the old subway entrance. — Lauren Oliver

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

To a large extent, we're working hard to fulfill the consumer demand for Subway sandwiches. — Fred DeLuca

I leave you, home,
when I'm ripped from the doorstep
by commerce or fate. Then I submit
to the awful subway of the world ... — Anne Sexton

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

New York is so diverse. When you're on the street or in the subway, you're experiencing more of the diversity of New York. — Chloe Sevigny

Wall Street is the only place that people drive to in a Rolls Royce to take advice from people who ride the subway. — Warren Buffett

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. — Simeon Strunsky

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy. — Jennifer Garner

Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat. — Jean Kerr

I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway. — Mike Birbiglia

I'm a feminist. So if a woman and I are going for the last empty seat on the subway, I'm not holding back. — Brandon Stanton

I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway for money. — Don Alias

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. — Ana Gasteyer