Boulevard Quotes

• All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.

  Eric Thomas

  Work, Hard, Hard Work

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• Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.

  M. Ageyev

  People, Youth, Gradual Change

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• The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

  Jennifer Lynch

  Sunset, Eight, Years

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• The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought,
  Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught
  In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront
  Implacable winter's long, cross-questioning brunt.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Winter, Long, Tree

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4394, Delphi Classics

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• My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed and out of order, dogs barking from behind fences meant to keep out intruders. It's not the place that impoverishes me but I who bring my own sense of poverty, of loss, to the place. It's a sense of near nothingness, as though I were not so much a blank slate as an erased chalkboard, still bearing illegible smudges of smoothed-over writing.

  Marco Roth

  Dog, Loneliness, Writing

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• Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Beautiful, Strong, Coffee

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1994). “These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993”, p.180, New Directions Publishing

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• I remember having my own apartment and a little used white Mustang car and $3000 in the bank, driving down Sunset Boulevard thinking, 'Wow, it doesn't get any better than this!'

  Cheryl Ladd

  Sunset, Thinking, White

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.

  Tom Robbins

  Beach, Morning, Writing

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• When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.

  Amy Hempel

  Beer, Car, Gone

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.

  John Berger

  Heart, Doors, Two

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.101, Vintage

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• We had individuality. We did as we pleased. We stayed up late. We dressed the way we wanted. I used to whiz down Sunset Boulevard in my open Kissel, with several red chow dogs to match my hair. Today, they're sensible and end up with better health. But we had more fun.

  Clara Bow

  Dog, Fun, Sunset

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I slept in Uday Hussein's bed - that was just so strange. Went to Saddam's palace, was in a mortar attack - crazy stuff. And like three days later you're back in traffic on Sunset Boulevard. It's all kind of behind you, which is kind of perfect for a guy like me because I can take that and turn it into quite the tale.

  Henry Rollins

  Crazy, Sunset, Perfect

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• A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Sex, Stars, Hollywood

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• I've opened up my school in California in a beautiful facility on Ventura Boulevard. I'm always in heaven when I'm doing my classes.

  Tasha Smith

  Beautiful, School, Class

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• It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.

  Gloria Swanson

  Sunset, Swimming, People

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• Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I've been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I've been the serene Buddha of the East, whose calm and wisdom we envy. I've known honor and dishonor, enthusiasm and exhaustion. ...I've been the sun and the moon, and everything because life is not enough.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Girl, Moon, Night

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• Sometimes when you get old, you get a star on Hollywood Boulevard.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Stars, Hollywood, Sometimes

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• And if I were to open you up - would you see anything less remarkable? Less intricately dazzling, in its squelching, spongy way? Lungs and heart and spleen, and all the rest - ticking away, as it were? Yet you walk down the boulevard, and pass any number of such wonderful devices, all ticking away as they walk, and think it no great marvel.

  K. W. Jeter

  Heart, Thinking, Numbers

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• I didn't have anything to do with selecting IFC. I don't have anything to do with distribution, or business, or marketing, but think it's a good choice by Graham, and perfect for London Boulevard. It gets the picture straight into a dialog with the public, and it doesn't set the sights too high. They're very hip at IFC, and they get the film. The cineplex hasn't done film any favors as an art form.

  William Monahan

  Art, Thinking, Sight

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• You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can't. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there's nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.

  Owen Wilson

  Art, Drinking, Book

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• Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

  Anne Rice

  Streets Of Paris, Age, Paris Fashion

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.246, Ballantine Books

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• And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Death, Night, Thinking

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.561, Vintage

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• I live in Los Angeles. It's a very liberal city, but it's so hypocritical in what it's liberal about. You can be driving down Hollywood Boulevard, see a guy in lipstick and high heels wearing a fur coat masturbating into a mailbox. People giving him a hard time as they drive by: Hey, is that real fur? Of course not! That's sick!

  Dana Gould

  Real, Hard Times, Cities

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• Every community has a Martin Luther King Boulevard. It's the cornerstone we all know. It's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where Walmart stands together with your community to make every day better.

  Tavis Smiley

  Kings, Community, Together

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• With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...like me!

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Dream, Broken, Video

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