One-liners

Woman on cell: It’s just so different from the other South American countries, it’s just — it’s more European. I mean, Alex had blue eyes, you know? Blue eyes! There just weren’t any….what was that word you just said? Say that again?…Yes, there wasn’t any of that.

–M103 bus, Upper East Side

Overheard by: Noah Gallagher

Teen girl: Let’s talk about prom and Toni Morrison.

–Lincoln Center

Hobo shuffling through his belongings, to no one in particular: I’m starting to feel like a Democrat.

–6th Ave & W 4th St

Overheard by: Rebecca Sills

Hipster guy on cell: So you like the kid more than the pussy?

–15th & Washington Sq. W

Overheard by: Joelseph Galasso

Conductor: Grand Central, coming soon to a station stop near you.

–Metro-North, 125th St.

Overheard by: A Dedicated Commuter

Man talking to himself: Automated cartoon movie life. I don’t want it.

–45th & 6th

Overheard by: Duncan Pflaster

Parking garage attendant: I ain’t even playin’. This is not a game. I can eat the pussy for three hours. Straight.

–12th St. between 7th & 8th Ave, Park Slope

Guy: If you were playing Risk, and you were Charles Darwin, would you place all of your armies on the Galapagos Islands?

–91st & Columbus

Overheard by: John Bardes

Toddler girl: Penis!

–The Time Warner Center

Overheard by: Ally

Guy talking to two male friends: Shut up! Shut the fuck up! If you don’t want to put your dick in my mouth, that’s OK, but shut up!

–Downtown A train platform, W. 4th St

Overheard by: miss professor

Hipster guy on phone: No, no, no, no that is the sound that they said my penis made when it died.

–Morgan & Grattan, East Williamsburg

Mature woman to mature husband, going in to see The Light in the Piazza: Piazza — it means “little pizza.”

–Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center

Girl on cell: … a roma tomato, lime… I mean lemon, either one… omigosh, this is the wrong number! [hangs up]

–Staten Island Ferry

Guy: [something in Spanish]… how do you say “altar boy”? You know, the ones whose little dicks the priest sucks?

–7th & Ave A

Overheard by: Jenny B