Quotes about street

Mehmet Murat ildan -

For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!

Michael Bassey Johnson - Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

If you are not selfish and greedy, you picked up riches along the street.

Mervyn Peake - Weird Shadows From Beyond: An Anthology Of Strange Stories

The road was wet with rain, black and shiny like oilskin. The reflection of the street lamps wallowed like yellow jelly-fish. A bus was approaching - a bus to Piccadilly, a bus to the never-never land - a bus to death or glory.I found neither. I found something which haunts me still.The great bus swayed as it sped. The black street gleamed. Through the window a hundred faces fluttered by as though the leaves of a dark book were being flicked over. And I sat there, with a sixpenny ticket in my ha

Suman Pokhrel -

Haunted trees covered behind the curtains of their own leaves stare at the dark from the fringe of streets.

Tanzy Sayadi - Better to be able to love than to be loveable

I stood there on the corner of the street,I held on to your hand,I looked into your eyes,And all you responded with was,"move on

Rebecca Solnit - Wanderlust: A History of Walking

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

Daniel Amory - Minor Snobs

That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn.

Denis Johnson - The Name of the World

When I reached the street I didn't know whether to go right or left. Soon I'd have to start acting like a person who cared about what happened to him.

Will Advise -

Backpackers can pack much more meows than baggers. Beggars never feed stray cats as street cats are self-sustaining.

Deyth Banger -

Why am I anti-social?? Hey GreenWind can you answer me, little black biatch that I don't go out makes me anti social? How about the people which can't cross the street, everyday talking about football and playing box. You are one of them, so you are without minded guy, you are dumb, stupid and black biatch. Let's see how now you will win??? Why you are so quite??? Oh,oh I know you don't have what to say!

Steven Magee -

Some people call street lights 'Crime Lights', as they are associated with an increased level of criminal activity.

Genereux Philip -

To get a lot money, it's a lot of shit you sacrifice.

Eudora Welty - On Writing

It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and stories we see spectacles forming in the street and parades coming from around the corner, and we know to greet then with distrust and apprehension: their intent is still to be revealed.

Deyth Banger -

Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home.

Haki R. Madhubuti -

Street culture is a culture of containment. Most young people do not realize that it all too often leads to a “dead end”. “Street culture,” as I am using the term, is a counterforce to movement culture. Street culture in contemporary urban reality is synonymous with survival at all costs. This world view is mostly negative, because it demands constant adjustment to circumstances that are often far beyond young people’s control or understanding, such as economics, education, housing, employment,

Mehmet Murat ildan -

Sometimes a gloomy street is all a sad person needs! A magical relief may arise from the meeting of the two sad things!

M.F. Moonzajer - HATRED AND MADNESS

After applying to hundreds of scholarships I finally felt that we are also beggars, no different than others, we are not on the street, uneducated, but we are sitting in front of computers with years of hardworking and repeatedly begging each and everyone to sponsor and support our education, not because we deserve, but we cannot afford.

Samantha Young - On Dublin Street

The thought of hurting him ripped me apart. Ripped me so totally, that I knew, I cared more for him than I did myself.

Donald Goines - Whoreson

When I was three years old and in my mother's arms, she looked down at me and said, "Son, the way I'm taking care of you now, when you get old, always have a woman to take care of you like this." Dig this! All I'm goin' do is rest and dress, buy gasoline and lean. I'm goin' buy diamond rings and have the best of everything. I'm goin' pimp whores.

Robert Ludlum - The Matlock Paper

There is nothing in a crowded street more noticeable than a man running ― unless it is a woman.

Torron-Lee Dewar - 50 Ways to Become a Better Choreographer

Every dance you make belongs to you. It is part of your collection. When you think of it like that, you'll want to make your next routine the best you've ever made!

Dan Davin -

The emptiness, the way his heels rang on the asphalt,was satisfying, emphasised his aloneness. A man alone, alone late at night with no one to say he should be home in bed.

Heather O'Neill - Lullabies for Little Criminals

I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.

Megan Frazer Blakemore - The Friendship Riddle

Don't you love those crazy Brits?Jumpers for sweaters and spots for zits.And when they want to change their suits,It's in a box, not a booth.Be a hero, make a call.Steepest streets might make you fall.

Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago

He is on his way to her. In a moment he will leave the wooden sidewalks and vacant lots for the paved streets. The small suburban houses flash by like the pages of a book, not as when you turn them over one by one with your forefinger but as when you hold your thumb on the edge of the book and let them all swish past at once. The speed is breathtaking. And over there is her house at the far end of the street, under the white gap in the rain clouds where the sky is clearing, toward the evening. H

Vladimir Nabokov - American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

This twinned twinkle was delightful but not completely satisfying; or rather it only sharpened my appetite for other tidbits of light and shade, and I walked on in a state of raw awareness that seemed to transform the whole of my being into one big eyeball rolling in the world's socket.Through peacocked lashes I saw the dazzling diamond reflection of the low sun on the round back of a parked automobile. To all kinds of things a vivid pictorial sense had been restored by the sponge of the thaw. W

M.F. Moonzajer - A moment with God ; Poetry

We are all alone the difference is someone of us in the bed and some of us on the street.

Sunday Adelaja -

The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk less of the nation where they are

Sunday Adelaja -

The concept of dignity of labour took people off the street.

Steven Bochco -

'Hill Street,' because of the wacky nature of many of our characters, really allowed us to indulge a kind of cheek-to-jowl juxtaposition of high drama with very low humor.

Zig Ziglar -

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Karen Finerman -

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

The Weeknd -

For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.

Clive Cussler -

If ever a car was created by designers with dreams of grandeur, it had to be the 1958 Buick Limited: the heftiest, highest-priced and most opulent monster ever to hit the street in the '50s.

Jodie Evans -

For me, feminism is about equality. So, when someone works for a Wall Street firm and says they're a feminist, my eyes are going to roll.

Ian Harding -

I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly wary of any female under the age of 19. Even when some of them come up to me, they're usually very cordial, nice and polite.

Lynn Coady -

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

Joel Edgerton -

Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.

Eric Alterman -

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.

David Harvey -

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Matt Taibbi -

By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.

Alice Barrett -

I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.

Mary Ellen Mark -

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

Sharon Jones -

Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'

Ian Frazier -

When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed dogs.

Sasha Pieterse -

I got my heel stuck in a drain as I was crossing the street and cars were coming. It was really scary. A girl in heels in New York is a hard combination.

Murray Rothbard -

By the 1890s, the leading Wall Street bankers were becoming increasingly disgruntled with their own creation, the National Banking System... while the banking system was partially centralized under their leadership, it was not centralized enough.

Laurie Graham -

In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.

Jane Siberry -

Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.

Bill Cunningham -

The best fashion show is definitely on the street. Always has been, and always will be.

Katherine Kelly -

I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary I'd been there five years. It just felt right to leave.

Hannah Arendt -

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Gil Scott-Heron -

I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and I speculate later on what happened to them and how they might have been got back. These guys are dead, all three, and they have a chance in the afterlife to do something they should have done when they were alive.

Alex Berenson -

It's no secret that big institutional investors have a lot of advantages on Wall Street. They get the first chance to buy hot initial public offerings. They get to meet in person with companies' managements.

Vikas Swarup -

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

Brandon Stanton -

It's a very immersive and intense form of travel to walk around with an interpreter and stop random people on the street and ask them about their lives.

Condoleezza Rice -

Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives.

Dolly Parton -

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

Barack Obama -

Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis recklessness on Wall Street did.

Susan Bysiewicz -

I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable.

Adriana Lima -

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

Nelson Algren -

...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.

T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

Streets that follow like a tedious argumentOf insidious intentTo lead you to an overwhelming question...

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

You may have the dark and cold street life, ruled by the lessor light of the moon. During this time I restore my temple, and later awake to greet the awesome radiance of the sun-star.

Mehmet Murat ildan -

A street full of shadows will teach you what life is much better than the street full of lights!

Téa Obreht - The Tiger's Wife

My grandfather would pet the dog, and, in a voice that made him sound like some kind of children's program puppet, he would say: "You're a dog! You're a dog! Where are you? You're a dog!" and the dog's tongue would drop out of its mouth and it would start keening. After a few hours of this, I said, "Jesus Grandpa, I get it, he's a dog," not knowing that, just a few years later, I would be reminding every dog I met on the street that it was a dog, and asking it where it was.

Rebecca Solnit - Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.

Pierre Albert-Birot - The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

...And we left the lightfor the night of the street

Mehmet Murat ildan -

In a simple street you can find the whole world: You can find joy and sorrow; you can find good and evil, silence and noise; you can find all the comedies and all the tragedies! An ordinary simple street is the mirror of the whole world!

Daisy Hernandez - A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir

Love will work no matter what job i have, what nationality I claim, or what street i live on. It will work even if i kiss a woman. and it does.

Robley Wilson -

I wish in the city of your heartyou would let me be the streetwhere you walk when you are mostyourself. I imagine the houses:It has been raining, but the rainis done and the children kept homehave begun opening their doors.

Steven Magee -

Mankind's obsession with money and greed has them going down a one way street to their demise.

Mehmet Murat ildan -

A silent street always welcome a good music!

Kjiva -

I'm trap in marriage with gangsta rhyme and my street life.

Genereux Philip -

Never Underrate A Street Boy With Wifi

Sunday Adelaja -

True love for our nation will compel us to shout on the streets and get on our knees and ask people to repent

Debatrayee Banerjee -

She was perfectly sane in streets unknown. She loved conversing with people tagged as strangers. She was social, amiable & all that is her. Yet, with known people she felt unknown, she choked words and fought inside. And indeed she tripped insane while traversing those streets known. She stared at others and consumed their happiness through senses cold. And so she waits for Winter's warmth to touch her in streets of distant shore, in her own world of simple happiness.

Khali Raymond - Ghanport's Finest

I have to hurt other people in order to get what I want, I don’t have a choice but to. In life, you gotta do the right things for the wrong reasons. Or the wrong things for the right reasons.