Quotes about turnstile

A collection of quotes on the topic of turnstile.

    Quotes about turnstile

    “My life is ticking away one subway token at a time - a never ending pirouette of arriving and departing, pushing through turnstiles, nodding goodbye and hello. In eight hours I'll be allowed to turn around and go home.”

    Rob Payne (1973) Canadian writer

    Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 1, p. 1 (opening line...)

    Life, Home, Time
    Jani Allan photo

    “I disapproved of the number of men she had traipsing into her bedroom and suggested she should have a turnstile on her bedroom door.”

    Jani Allan (1952) South African columnist and broadcaster

    Describing Linda Shaw, her former flatmate and defence witness in 1992 in the London High Court to George Carman, defence lawyer representing Channel 4 during the libel case she filed against the broadcaster. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/courtroom-14-the-owl-has-landed-1535309.html <br class="br">Other

    Men
    William S. Burroughs photo

    “I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train…”

    William S. Burroughs book Naked Lunch

    Opening Chapter
    Naked Lunch (1959)

    Feeling, Training