Quotes About Subway

I had an overwhelming sense of the lonliness of this city - a trillion souls in their bedrooms, high in the cliffs of windows. I thought of what was underneath it all - I thought of the electricty cables, steam, water, fire, subway trains and lava in the city's guts, the subterranean rumbling of trains and earthquakes. I thought of the dead souls from the war, concreted over.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'

I love pulling faces at little kids on the London tube to see if I can make them laugh, and I usually do.

I started a deli when I was 19 years old. Kevin O's. The sandwiches at Kevin O's were a little like Subway before Subway - fresh baked bread. My best seller was turkey with cream cheese and artichoke hearts. I just made it up.

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.

Give me my Scallop shell of quiet. You know, they did not print the whole of the Indian song in the subway. Only a few lines. But I know the poem. "It's off in the distance. It came into the room. It's here in the circle." I know the poem. She knows the poem

And although I wanted to think about him, it would have to wait until the next day, perhaps until I was on the subway, where I seem to have most of my more interesting thoughts.

Simon and Garfunkel sang, back in the 1960's, in these days "the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.")

She was a woman and she had spent enough time alone on subway platforms or streets late at night to know something was wrong.

You don't get ads on the Underground saying: "Tired? Then Sleep More," as no one has figured out how to make money this way.

When she got off at 117th Street, the subway's morning ammonia smell was beginning to accumulate more legitimate odors of authentic urine as she passed by a man pissing on the wall.

Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a basic civil right.

downtown. He held the matchbox up at the level of his chest so the cricket could see out. This was the first time Chester had been able to watch where he was going on the subway. The last time he had been buried under roast beef sandwiches. He hung out of the box, gazing up and down the car.

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

Demon slayers take the subway?

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

I looked around the subway car. It was a little like the drawings I had seen of slave ships. Of course, they hadn't had newspapers on the slave ships, hadn't needed them yet; but, as concerned space (and also, perhaps, as concerned intention) the principle was exactly the same.

If you go into an underground train in London - probably anywhere, but chiefly in London - there's that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don't exchange many pleasantries.

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

I love getting out of the Q train at Union Square. It's such a mix of people, like a party. There's always an errand you can do along there, whether it's picking up contacts or buying poker chips.

I've definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways.

I literally do not understand how New Yorkers deal with summer.

I'm of that subset of native New Yorkers who can't drive.