Tram Quotes

“Tram’s road is predetermined, but not yours! You are not a tram, you can choose your path”

“Trams are not free; their paths are predetermined; they must travel on the pre-designed paths! You are not a tram; your path is not predetermined; you can travel on any path! Fate is nonsense; you are free, you choose your own path with your own mind!”

“Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.”

“Cities who do not have trams always look less literary, less poetic, and less mysterious!”

“The tram can run over you only if you are on the tram way! The darkness can run over you only if you are on the ignorance way!”

“(Regarding the Roosevelt Tram along Queensboro Bridge):"They had it renovated by the French. French cars. French cables. Cables that surrender! Would you ride in a tram that surrenders? I sure as hell wouldn't!”

“This was the winter of 2008/9. Work was ongoing to reinstate a tram system in the city. A lot of people couldn’t see the point of trams and many more disliked the disruption. Streets were closed off. There was almost a sense of ‘apartheid’ as the roadworks made it difficult to move from New Town to Old Town and vice versa. Added to which, the weather was fairly grim. And the banks looked ready to implode.”

“Your mind is your tram”

“Trams and disciplined people always reach their destinations!”

“When the tram has arrived at the stop, you have to be there! Calculate where a good opportunity will stop and be there!”