Streets Quotes - Page 25

• The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Wall, Keys, Giving

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• But it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass on the street? A rather good question to ask - particularly in The Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight, People, Good Questions

  "Fictional character: Narrator". "The Twilight Zone/ The After Hours", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.

  Muddy Waters

  Men, California, Black

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• Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture. A photographer standing before houses and streets and people and trees and artifacts of a culture imposes an order on the scene - simplifies the jumble by giving it structure. He or she imposes this order by choosing a vantage point, choosing a frame, choosing a moment of exposure, and by selecting a plane of focus.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  Stephen Shore (2007). “The nature of photographs”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

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• The rest of the story from Acts 1:8 explains that Christ-followers have a mission while here on earth. They are to be Christ’s witnesses all over this planet. It’s as if Christ said, “Think you’re missing the book smarts, the street smarts, the looks, the talent, or the speaking ability to accomplish this mission? Don’t be concerned with those things, because you have my mountain-moving, life-transforming, death-defying power on your side.”

  Bill Hybels

  Smart, Moving, Book

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• Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Bed, Half, Way

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• There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs

  Lawrence Summers

  Jobs, Children, Would Be

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• Once on the streets of New York a woman called the police because her child spoke to me.

  Theda Bara

  New York, Children, Police

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.

  GG Allin

  Shopping, Records, Carts

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• My name is Jordan Belfort. I was raised in a tiny apartment in Queens. At the tender age of 22 I headed to Wall Street. Within months I started my own firm out of an abandoned auto body shop. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

  Jordan Belfort

  Queens, Wall, Years

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• Revolution is profitable. So the capitalists sell it... The hip capitalists have some allies within the revolutionary community: longhairs who work as intermediaries between the kids on the street and the millionaire businessmen.

  Jerry Rubin

  Kids, Community, Hips

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• I’m constantly embarrassed. I fidget and twist my hair and pull weird faces and stutter. Some days I feel quite confident, then others there’s a microscopic flaw about myself physically, which will make me embarrassed to walk the streets.

  Graham Coxon

  Hair, Twists, Faces

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• All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees.

  Charles Ives

  Heart, Blood, Sea

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.41, 1st World Publishing

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• I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Children, Growing Up, Hands

  Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.186, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• It is a dangerous time to be a black woman in America. It’s a time when we are not safe in the streets or at home or at school or at work and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it. Nobody. Not us. Not our mommas. Not the police. Not the people we elected to look out for our interests. Nobody. We’re just out here. (p.53)

  Pearl Cleage

  Home, School, America

  Pearl Cleage (1993). “Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot”

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• Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.

  Dorothy Fields

  Feet, Sides, Sunny

  "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (song) (1930)

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• Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

  Tama Janowitz

  Fall, Kind Deeds, Long

  Slaves of New York "Modern Saint 271" (1986)

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• The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in which it is subjected to certain mechanical and, mainly, chemical processing, and then, through innumerable side-streets, it is brought into the depot of the body. Aside from this basic series of institutions, along which the raw material moves, there is a series of lateral chemical manufactories, which prepare certain reagents for the appropriate processing of the raw material.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Moving, Science, Long

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• I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.

  Oscar Peterson

  Piano, Despair, Want

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• You know somethin', man? Some day I'm gonna be walkin' up the street one way and you're gonna be comin' down the other way, and we're gonna pass each other and I'm gonna say 'Hello, best white band in the world' and you're gonna say 'Hello, best colored band in the world.

  Chick Webb

  Inspirational, Change, Men

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• There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it. Shun the enterprise around the corner, which can at least be observed, and seek out the one that manufactures an incomprehensible product.

  Peter Lynch

  Wall, Saving, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• No man can control Wall Street. Wall Street is like the ocean. No man can govern it. It is too vast. Wall Street is full of eddies and currents. The thing to do is to watch them, to exercise a little common sense, and … to come out on top.

  Jay Gould

  Wall, Ocean, Exercise

  "Jay Gould : A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, February 1893.

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• I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors.

  Jay Gould

  Rumor, Would Be, Done

  "Jay Gould : A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, February 1893.

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• Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.

  James Laughlin

  Reading, Thinking, Two

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