Street Corners Quotes - Page 3

• She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes and smokes on the street corner, though she may be a joy to all who know her and have devoted her life to charity, could never qualify as a lady.

  Judith Martin

  Husband, Shoes, Smoking

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Just one more word. If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner, just let's pretend we never met before.

  William Holden

  Running, Mets, Streets

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• Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down - they were still there, although no one was in them.

  Joan Cusack

  Country, Police, Towers

  "Rt Interview: Joan Cusack On War, Inc., The Unofficial Sequel to Grosse Point Blank". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. May 22, 2008.

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• A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

  Donald Kennedy

  Work, People, Perfection

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• I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a street corner, trying to force it to bloom.

  Douglas Coupland

  Lying, Believe, Emotional

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes. It has a million voices. It unleashes the tongue, teasing out secrets you never meant to tell, secrets you never even knew. It shouts, rants, whispers. It speaks of great plans, tragic loves, and terrible betrayals. It screams with laughter. It chuckles softly to itself. It weeps in front of its own reflection. It revives summers long past and memories best forgotten. Every bottle a whiff of other times, other places, everyone...a humble miracle

  Joanne Harris

  Summer, Laughter, Memories

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• I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.

  Henry Rollins

  Giving, Skins, Smooth Skin

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• The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock ’n’ roll. But the guitars made sounds guitars didn’t always make. Symphonic sounds. Sacred sounds. The music dug in so deep you didn’t hear it so much as feel it, reminding me of a dream I used to have when I was a kid, where I would be standing on a street corner, I would jump into the air, flap my arms, and soar up into the sky. That’s the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Dream, Writing, Kids

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.86, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.

  Jennifer Egan

  Hippie, Hair, Shoes

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.31, Anchor

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• In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Fall, Color, Years

  Mohsin Hamid (2008). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.27, Penguin UK

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• I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.

  William Eggleston

  Musician, Want, Facts

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• Barack Obama is a street corner community organizer who is using the office of the presidency here to virtually undermine it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Office, Community, Streets

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.

  Ai Weiwei

  New York, Talking, Cities

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Well I'm not making predictions. But the point I can - what I can say to you to contribute to your thinking is as somebody who has been out knocking on doors, doing the street corners, speaking to constituents right across the country is that the Government - that people understand that the Government's message of jobs and growth is addressing their concerns and they have a level of - a high level of confidence that Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison are the people who can deliver.

  George Brandis

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• When you make the film, there's a big difference between when you're in your own home at the typewriter, and when you're standing on a mountain, or on a street corner, and buses are coming by-it's a different reality. You make a million changes that were never in the script, but that reality dictates.

  Woody Allen

  Home, Reality, Differences

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• A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

  Harvey Milk

  Reading, Home, Independence

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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• I couldn't find any good pictures in magazines of ordinary modern street corners in America, so I persuaded this guy I knew in Sacramento - Stanley Something-or-other - to spend a day with me driving around just to take snapshots.

  Robert Crumb

  America, Guy, Ordinary

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• Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all. And writers - not just literary writers, but popular writers as well - breathe air into English and keep it lively by making it their own, not by adhering to some style manual that gets handed out to college Freshmen in a composition class.

  Donna Tartt

  Kids, College, Air

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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• Well, as resources inevitably disappear [in Africa], people have to make do with a lot less. You have to be much more ingenious with a lot less, and accept that you can't get your perfect tuna sandwich on a street corner.

  Damon Albarn

  Perfect, People, Sandwiches

  "Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. January 26, 2009.

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• I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.

  Al Pacino

  Confused, Real, Dope

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• Every day after school, for three hours a day, I would sell those pralines on the street corner. I was just eight years old. I'd bring the money home to my parents and say, "This is just the beginning."

  Richard Simmons

  Home, School, Eight

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Now that's hard for many people to believe, given that the media image of a drug dealer is a black kid standing on the street corner with his pants sagging down.

  Michelle Alexander

  Believe, Kids, Media

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.

  Pope Francis

  Nature, Struggle, Priorities

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• Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought that was a waste of time. I'd go out on the street corner and be funny. In a minute.

  George Carlin

  Practice, Piano, Waste

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• You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what hed done the night before. I thought, I can do that! I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.

  Regis Philbin

  Jobs, Night, Done

  "Jerry Seinfeld Interviews Regis Philbin on His Television Career". Interview with Jerry Seinfeld, www.newsweek.com. November 13, 2011.

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