Alleys Quotes

• Always follow your dreams, even if they lead you down a few dark alleys.

  Teresa Mummert

  Dream, Dark, Overcoming

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• We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.

  Jeff Bezos

  Dark, Pioneers, Sides

  "Amazon's Jeff Bezos looks to the future". "60 Minutes" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. December 1, 2013.

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• But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Adventure, Dark, Back Alleys

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.330, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Stars, Air

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.145, Penguin

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• We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Dream, Cities, Long

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?

  Jim Rohn

  Waiting, Mind, Thieves

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 26, 2017

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• And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station

  Steven Morrissey

  Self, Validation, Needs

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• I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

  Charles Bukowski

  Long Ago, World, Beaten

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.103, Canongate Books

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• Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

  Marston Bates

  Reading, Research, Literacy

  "The Nature of Natural History". Book by Marston Bates, 1950.

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• There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along it seemed to me that the flattened beer cans and papers and weeds and junk mail had been arranged by the wind into patterns; these patterns, when I scrutinized them, lay distributed so as to comprise a visual language.

  Philip K. Dick

  Weed, Beer, Wind

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• I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Thinking, Rats

  Waste Land (1922) pt. 2

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• But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Cities

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.657, Wordsworth Editions

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• Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

  Don Rickles

  People, Singing, Opera

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• Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Errors, Discovery, Joy

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• It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Mean, Thinking, Back Alleys

  GownUps interview, www.grownups.co.nz.

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  Florence King

  Mind, Literature, World

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• The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

  Peter Ustinov

  Frustration, Back Alleys, Social

  Nicholas Fraser, Kate Caffrey, Peter Ustinov, Carl Sagan, Eric Sevareid (1978). “Aristotle Onassis”

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• Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

  Tom Chapin

  Song, Tin Pan Alley, Bob

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• There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

  Branford Marsalis

  Song, Tin Pan Alley, Records

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• These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Years, Spinning Plates

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• The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Smile, Beautiful, Doe

  "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" (1892)

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• The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate.

  Pete du Pont

  Country, Party, Struggle

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• I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and down Artist's Alley and saying "Hello" to people. I like hanging out on the DC booth. I can't do that anymore. I'd like to, but I can't. I physically can't. If I stop moving, somebody will come up to me with something to sign, and if I sign it, somehow it's like ants sensing sugar. There will be fifty or a hundred people around me and then fire marshals will come and then I'm trapped in a crowd. It's bizarre.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Artist, Fire

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• Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot it was to make out.

  Steven Tyler

  Hot, Today, Bowling

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• To be a mentor for up-and-coming artists is right up my alley.

  Jessica Simpson

  Artist, Mentor

  Jessica Simpson Gets the "Star Treatment in a Special Issue of WWD" by Allie Merriam, www.popsugar.com. March 28, 2011.

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