Karl Philipp Moritz Quotes

If I'm going to Kilburn, I get on a bus.

If you live in central London, that's probably fine for you, but in places like Edmonton, where you're almost out of sight of London, you've got to pay more and more to get into central London. How does that work?

I used to go from place to place by tram. A shilling would take you all around London and the suburbs.

Why are there not cabs in Edmonton? Why are there cabs in central London but not here? And if they're going to be here, they should be cheaper. And travelcards, they're expensive.

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.

I spend far too much on taxis. Now, if anyone suggests we get the Tube I say, 'The Tube! I'd forgotten about that.'

I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.

I go into town every day on the tube. I've got an Oyster card.

You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.

Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.

You don't really drive in cabs in L.A. unless you're broke or homeless - or if you're broke and driving the cab.

People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.

Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.

We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.

I'm sitting in the bus station, minding my own business, reading 'Ta-Da!' magazine; a magazine by and for gay magicians, but that's a different story.

If you want reality take the bus.

I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the social and human consequences of the radical elimination of transportation that this entails.

The main problem with rail is flexibility and affordability.

I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.

Think street, train sport.

I entered an omnibus to go to some place or other. At that moment when I put my foot on the step the idea came to me, without anything in my former thoughts seeming to have paved the way for it, that the transformations I had used to define the Fuchsian functions were identical with non-Euclidean geometry.

I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It's freezing and it starts to rain and it's the ugliest bus I've ever seen, rattling down the ugliest streets, in the ugliest city, in the ugliest country, in the ugliest of all possible worlds.

I take the subway because I don't like having someone else driving. It's hard for me to be in a cab, because the traffic makes me feel insane. On the subway you're getting there faster and it's easier.

I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway.