David Grann Quotes

I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast corner. It is to never ever make a smooth entrance, always to get caught looking lost on the street.

I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress... I got lost on the subway.

Believe it or not, I've never been on the subway.

I love walking everywhere I go and following City Mapper.

I know how to get around London better than Sydney.

I bloody love transport and plotting a route through London.

I can be a bit nerdy so I need a good, clearly marked map, as you can miss out on some of the coolest places in Amsterdam if you don't have a wander down the little side streets.

Let's start at 35 because I don't know where it is.

When I was visiting the U.K. as a teenager in 2006, I got lost in an East London market.

Living in London is very different to living in a little town in Germany.

I was raised in New York, so that's the greatest city in the world to me, but if you take that out of the equation, then London is my favourite city, and I'm a huge fan of Dublin as well.

The city of Madrid is a beautiful city, and my family loved living there.

In Paris, the people go in the Metro, they move, they go to their offices, 8 a.m. in the morning - it's like remote control.

I grew up in Newport, so I went to Boston growing up. The city holds a lot of special memories of my childhood, like the Swan Boats and Make Way for Ducklings.

I am a New Yorker! Mass transit is my sweet ride. I know the subway system like the back of my hand.

I commuted an hour and a half each way to high school in N.Y.C. I took a bus, a ferry, then a subway.

I don't have many hobbies or talents other than cooking, but I've always been good at figuring out a city.

Whether I'm at home in London or in Paris for Loewe, I always like to walk to work.

I was very happy to have the opportunity of getting to know Manchester. It's such a good city.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.

Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost.

I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.

Newt Gingrich has criticized 'New York elites' who ride the subway. One of those subway elites threw up on my pants this morning.