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subway
«The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence»
Author: Paul Simon
(Singer, Song Writer)
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Words
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halls, Prophets, Sounds of, subway, tenement, tenements, The Prophets, whispered
«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»
«New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.»
Author: William E. Geist
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America and Americans,
Conversation
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checking, City of New York, conversations, newspaper, overhear, overheard, overhears, restaurant, subway, subway train
«I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we're dealing with, and that we're not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we're making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.»
Author: Billy Wilder
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dealing, Harvard, Harvard Law, Harvard Law School, law school, middle class, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates, restaurant, subway, underestimate
«Everyone has this sense of togetherness right now. For example, one guy on the subway today, he wanted to share my pants.»
«Once I saw a duck walking down the street so I went into Subway and ordered two pieces of bread, and they informed me that they could not do that, like there was some speical rule at Subway that two pieces of bread weren't allowed to touch. So the woman asked me what I wanted on the sandwich and I said I do not care it is for a duck, and she was like oh then it's free. I was not aware that ducks eat for free at Subway. It's like give me a chicken fajita sub, but don't worry about ringing it up, it is for a duck.»
Author: Mitch Hedberg
(Comedian)
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chicken, duck, ducks, for free, informed, ordered, ringing, rules of order, sandwich, sandwiches, Sandwich Is, sub, subway, touch down
«I didn't get a toy train like the other kids. I got a toy subway instead. You couldn't see anything, but every now and then you'd hear this rumbling noise go by.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
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every now and then, go by, kids, noise, now and then, rumble, rumbles, rumbling, rumblings, subway, subway train, The Toy, toy, toy train, train