Alleys Quotes - Page 3

• Number one comes freedom first for my people and equality. And this is what I plan to do after I'm through fighting - working with nothing but the people, the little people in the alleys: the downtrodden people, going out and helping them with my image.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Numbers, People

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.

  Bob Dylan

  Reality, Shoes, Daddy

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Letting Go, Men, People

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.164, Modern Library

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• In restaurants where they serve frog's legs, what do they do with the rest of the frog? Do they just throw it away? You never see "frog torsos" on the menu. Is there actually a garbage can full of frog bodies in the alley? I wouldn't want to be a homeless guy looking for an unfinished cheeseburger and open the lid on that

  George Carlin

  Garbage Cans, Guy, Body

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

  Ann Landers

  Home, Men, Sea

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• Without Scientology, I would be in an alley somewhere looking for dope.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Dope, Would Be, Scientology

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• The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Government, Way, Blind

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• The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.

  Joss Whedon

  Thinking, Brain, License

  "Joss Whedon" by Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. August 08, 2007.

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• It would be hilarious if I worked in a bowling alley.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Would Be, Bowling, Ifs

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• There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Song, Ballet, Opera

  Song: Jungleland, Album: Born To Run, 1975

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• What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!

  S. E. Hinton

  Gang, Outcast, Social

  S. E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, Penguin

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• I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.

  Little Richard

  Uncles, Aunt, Long

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• O days remember'd well! remember'd all!
  The bitter sweet, the honey and the gall;
  Those garden rambles in the silent night,
  Those trees so shady, and that moon se bright,
  That thickset alley by the arbor clos'd,
  That woodbine seat where we at last repos'd;
  And then the hopes that came and then were gone,
  Quick as the clouds beneath the moon past on.

  George Crabbe

  Sweet, Moon, Night

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• The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.

  Joni Mitchell

  Running, Art, Media

  Song: The Windfall, Album: Night Ride Home

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• When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?

  J. K. Rowling

  Dark, Soul, Departed

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 16, 2005.

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• My stay in Camp Betty was the longest I'd been without drink or drugs in my adult life. [...] At first, they put me in a room with a guy who owned a bowling alley, but he snored like an asthmatic horse, so I moved and ended up with a depressive mortician. [...] The mortician snored even louder than the bowling alley guy - he was like a moose with a tracheotomy.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Horse, Guy, Drug

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• He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Done, Betrayed, Lasts

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.86, Penguin

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• Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.

  Jodi Picoult

  May, Way, Lost

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

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• I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.

  Thom Yorke

  Boys, Names, Aliens

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• The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety or the impossibility of his becoming white... the Negros will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties.

  Carter G. Woodson

  White, Receiving, Way

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• The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  Max Lucado (2013). “God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift”, p.80, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Fashion, Dark, Remember

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• Easy street is a blind alley.

  Wilson Mizner

  Ease, Blind, Easy

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• Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

  Terry Eagleton

  Ivory Tower, Towers, Culture

  "Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.

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