Avenues Quotes - Page 8

• Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.

  Debi Mazar

  Queens, Fun, Grandma

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• I can't hit some of the
  real high notes I used to hit, but it makes you have to explore
  different avenues.

  Roger Daltrey

  Real, Different, Used

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• The internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Networking, Bob, Next

  "Portrait of the artist: Jon Bon Jovi, musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.

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• There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding.

  Jules Romains

  Fashion, New York, Block

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• New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them - this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, New York, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.

  Philip Gibbs

  Morning, High Heels, Cities

  Philip Gibbs (1946). “The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography”

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• If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times.

  Kristin Davis

  Middle, Madison, Walking

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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• In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

  Norman Lear

  Leadership, People, Office

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• He put the blinker on, pulled out onto the avenue. "Well, that was nice," she said, sitting back. They had fun together these days, they really did. It was as if marriage had been a long, complicatd meal, and now there was this lovely dessert.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Love, Fun, Nice

  Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.126, Random House

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• But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

  Jason Alexander

  Uncles, Queens, Heart

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• I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

  Bob Balaban

  Lakes, My Family, Born

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Streets teemed with hell's wretched souls. New dead with their gadgets and old dead from antiquity. Demons roamed the avenues and alleyways, tormenting hapless damned at random with branding irons, flaming pitchforks, and razor-wire whips. -From the story Remember, Remember, Hell in November, in the anthology, Lawyers in Hell.

  Larry Atchley Jr.

  Iron, Soul, Wire

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• What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.

  Neil Peart

  Responsibility, Get Better, Students

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• The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.

  Spencer Bachus

  War, Years, America

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• ...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

  Paul Simon

  Beauty, Art, Communication

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• We must devastate the avenues where the wealthy live

  Lucy Parsons

  Wealthy

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• As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!

  Hugh Ferriss

  Doctors, Blood, Cities

  Hugh Ferriss (2012). “The Metropolis of Tomorrow”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Art, People, Different

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• Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Honor, Literature

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• Bears don't live on Park Avenue.

  Bernard Baruch

  Parks, Bears, Investment

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• I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Shut Up, Miserable, Curse

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus”, p.160, First Avenue Editions

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• Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it.

  Joe Elliott

  Manhattan, Beats, Bigs

  "How to travel like a rock star". "Celebrity travel" with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com.

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• The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce approbation and a desire of imitation, as avenues may be found for truth to the knowledge of nations.

  James Madison

  Government, Common Sense, Feelings

  Letter to Pierre-Étienne du Ponceau (James Madison papers, Library of Congress), January 23, 1826.

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• Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.

  Susan Sontag

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.72, Macmillan

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• From now on, I pray like I mean it. No more hitting SEND over and over. It's changed my life. It has freed me from fear and opened up endless avenues for me as a writer, radio host, parent, wife, and friend. It has enhanced every relationship I'm in, starting with the most important one: my relationship with God. Real faith isn't praying without ceasing. It's believing that God heard you the first time.

  Regina Brett

  Prayer, Real, Believe

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