It's certainly time to do field trials and see what happens. Ten years from now mobile TV will be more common. People will be watching it at restaurants, sports bars, subways, buses, airports. But it will probably be 20 years before it's mainstream.
Quotes about subways (15 Quotes)
The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally violent are seen daily on the newsstands, on TV, in the subways.
Before the strike, there was considerable sympathy for the workers, but once the strike began, that clearly changed. The real winners are neither labor or management but the public that desperately wanted their subways and buses back.
I can't fault them for picking a defense contractor, given all the public pressure to make the subways more secure,
The comparison of subways and sandwiches is a bit of an old joke for us now.
It's technically feasible, both for airplanes and subways. It's the social aspect that's really the most intractable.
Our intention is not to disturb the audience. I live in Manhattan, and we don't want to sit around in subways for too long also. But the appropriate place to experience this is in a movie theater. It is a movie. I hope people don't react hysterically to that.
It really hit home that we were developing a community here, people who really truly loved the Subways. Ever since we put all of our money in a pot and went around on our first U. K. tour, it was really about building a society or a movement. We really felt like we could relate to our audience, like they understood what we were saying.
You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long they'd been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head.
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is ... that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable ... the food we eat, the cramped apartments ... the crowded subways.... American life, in large cities, at any rate, is a perpetual assault of the senses and the nerves it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.
I took the PATH train in, and I work next to the World Trade Center. The PATH station smelled like popcorn, unlike the urine and blood of the New York City subways. I was immediately smitten.
Do we want to chase them out of the subways and into the streets Probably yes.
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
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.
This is the most exciting time in Subway's history. With the new menu, the current advertising program, the awareness people have of Subway, the way our average unit volumes are growing ... to see our franchise owners become more and more successful, what could be more exciting than that.