Brian F. O'Byrne Quotes

I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.

I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.

People always ask me what I'm doing on the subway, but I love it! Sometimes I like to ride in the front car and look out the window at the rats.

I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.

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

In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

In New York, the trains run all night, and the cabs are so cheap.

I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represented in any given subway car.

I love New York. I was in New York at the age of 13, at the School of American Ballet, walking around the subways in my little bunhead and thinking I was so cool.

I have no limo. In cities, I usually hail a taxi like everyone else.

I think one of the things about railways, if you get on a train you do find - as you come into Paddington, or wherever - you look into people's windows in a way that you just can't do in a car or any other way.

Living in N.Y.C. has truly awakened me to the New York elite and their penchant for the city's self-described brilliant public transit system. I think it sucks... just like public transit always does.

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

I still live in the city. I still jump on the bus.

How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

I can still jump on the Tube. I don't want that to change.

I love New York! It's probably my favorite city in the entire world.

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

I love New York. I love L.A. too. I love both places.

I love cities.

I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.

I love downtown Seattle. It's a city that has all of the outdoor activities and is still a very cosmopolitan city.

Normally I'm really lucky because I can go down to my local shops and no one cares. I take the Tube and the bus so it's kind of the perfect balance.

If you go into an underground train in London - probably anywhere, but chiefly in London - there's that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don't exchange many pleasantries.

I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.