Subway quotes
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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 -
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 -
Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.
-- Calvin Trillin -
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 -
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I take the subway because I don't like having someone else driving. It's hard for me to be in a cab, because the traffic makes me feel insane. On the subway you're getting there faster and it's easier.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.
-- Dhani Jones -
I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.
-- Eartha Kitt -
If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
-- Edward Norton -
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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 -
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 -
I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.
-- Harold Ford, Jr. -
When you're playing an icon like Wolverine, it's sometimes better to be someone that nobody knows because they don't know what to expect. I don't mind a little bit of anonymity; it helps on the subway.
-- Hugh Jackman -
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I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.
-- Jennifer Garner -
And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn't it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one's life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person...that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, kept one sane?
-- Jhumpa Lahiri -
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 -
I like taking the subway to work.
-- John Stossel -
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Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
-- Karen Thompson Walker -
On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.
-- Lewis Grizzard -
It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it.
-- Mimi Sheraton -
I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats.
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
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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.
-- Otto Schily -
I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.
-- Paul Giamatti -
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
-- Paul Simon -
Don't sleep in the subway, darling.
-- Petula Clark -
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I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress I got lost on the subway.
-- Piper Perabo -
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 -
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.
-- Richard Masur -
I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation.
-- Shepard Smith -
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What do you do when you’re living in a hut for $500 a month and subsisting on Boston Market and Subway? You just keep doing what you’re doing.
-- Sophia Amoruso -
If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.
-- Stanley Crouch -
If I do a picture, I want the audience to be the people I was just packed against on the subway or on the street, walking on Fourteenth Street. I don't want it to be some narrow public that I myself feel alienated from.
-- Eric Drooker -
The hard part on the subway is that you have, let's say, eight hours, but you have to hit these deadlines. From here to here, you can use this part. From this time to this time, you can use that part, and you have to hit them and it gets very stressful.
-- Jaume Collet-Serra -
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I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.
-- Mona Eltahawy -
Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.
-- Rachel Zucker -
Luckily, I didn't get too beaten up before someone gave me a shot, but there were times when I was living on friends' couches and eating five-dollar subs from Subway almost every meal.
-- Robbie Amell -
The rumble of a subway train, the rattle of the taxis.
-- Al Dubin -
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I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.
-- Alex Karpovsky -
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 for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.
-- Kate McKinnon
