“ In New York — whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame — not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements. Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves… ”
- Gilbert Adair- Copy
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“ Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine. ”
- James J. Hill- Copy
- 3.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 344
“ I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy. ”
- Jennifer Garner- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Everyone has this sense of togetherness right now. For example, one guy on the subway today, he wanted to share my pants. ”
- David Letterman- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. ”
- Paul Simon- Copy
- 311
“ The words of the prophets are written/On the subway walls. ”
- Simon and Garfunkel- Copy
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“ There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. ”
- H.G. Wells- Copy
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“ The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! We return. ”
- Edward M. Forster- Copy
- 363
“ People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. ”
- John Betjeman- Copy
- 1.7K
“ We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth — all these belong to the old period… ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico. ”
- Anthony Quinn- Copy
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