#subway

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

#buses #democracy #less #library #more

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#highway #intellectual #subway

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

— Paul Giamatti

#freak #get #guy #i #out

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

— Paul Goldberger

#beautiful thing #city #map #most #new

Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#case #cases #cold #court #court cases

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

#allen #car #crack #donald #donald trump

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

— Jennifer Garner

#happy #i #pennies #roll #square

In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared. ↗

— John Mica

#attacks #be prepared #billion #bombings #buses

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

#could #just #literally #new #new york

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

#about #am #because #go #i