Subway quotes
48 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo."
"If you're seeing a psychiatrist, you're wasting money because all you've got to do is get on a plane, get on a subway tomorrow and, inevitably, you're going to be seated in front of some guy who's playing with himself, and he'll be singing, 'Happy Days Are Here Again.' I tell you - when I see that guy, I feel pretty good about myself."
"I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway."
"I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life."
"When I first moved to New York, someone who thought they knew more than I did said: "You have to always look like you know where you're going when you get out of the subway.""
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"I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation."
"Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway."
"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."