Streets Quotes - Page 27

• I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

  Philip Guedalla

  Oxford, Paris, Suburbs

  Philip Guedalla (1921). “Supers & supermen: studies in politics, history and letters”

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• The only difference between street fighting and boxing is there a ref there from stopping me from killing you

  Marvin Hagler

  Fighting, Differences, Boxing

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• Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean America is free, as complacent liberals might think, much less too free, as conservatives often suggest. Just because most dissidents are left alone doesn't mean there is no police state, for that would be convenient indeed for the police statists: the idea that people ought not complain so long as they have the right to do so.

  Anthony Gregory

  Mean, Kissing, Gay

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• When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.

  Bernie Glassman

  Offering, Clothes, Bears

  Bernie Glassman (2013). “Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace”, p.74, Penguin

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• Kids have to be tough to survive on the streets of Kathmandu, where older gang members often beat and rob them. They face cold winters, hunger, homelessness, and unsympathetic police. But under each hardened shell there is still a child.

  Craig Kielburger

  Children, Kids, Winter

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• I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.

  Emanuel Celler

  Taken, Color, Rose

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on television, but he had no way of connecting with those who shared his views. Nor was there a quick, readily available tool for an ordinary citizen to gather information on his own. In 1960, communication was a one-way street, and information was fundamentally inaccessible. The whole idea of summoning up data or reaching thousands of individuals with the touch of a finger was a science-fiction fantasy.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Communication, Home, Ideas

  Jeff Greenfield (2011). “Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reaga n”, p.36, Penguin

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• The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions, and thus the cry in the poem may come to sound louder, more urgent, more real than the cry in the street outside. The death in the novel may move us more potently than the death in the next room. Thus there may be a covert, betraying link between the cultivation of aesthetic response and the potential of personal inhumanity.

  George Steiner

  Real, Moving, Risk

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.31, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• And any time you feed your ego, it's a one-way street. ... There were so many things I had to deal with that erased the positives I got from playing the game that it wasn't worth it. It's like eating a Big Mac and drinking a Diet Coke.

  Ricky Williams

  Drinking, Games, Ego

  "NFL dropout Ricky Williams chilling in Sierra / He's been found studying the healing arts" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. November 21, 2004.

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• The world spins along outside, the sun
  rises and sets, the streets go dark, the lights come on. The future is happening, but it can wait until tomorrow. Neither of us knows what will come next, or where we go from here,
  or even what anyone will say about us, but none of it matters. We’ve got each other right now.

  Pete Wentz

  Dark, Light, Waiting

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of failure overwhelming. Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows.

  Alain de Botton

  Running, Animal, Space

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• In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

  Mason Cooley

  Desire

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• I was knocking guys out in the streets before I knew how to throw a jab and keep your chin down, In most neighbourhoods, the guy that could fight gets respect. You got in the parties free. I never had to pay the dollar because people were scared of me. But back then I was ignorant.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Party, Fighting

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• New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.

  Huey Lewis

  Song, New York, Inspiration

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• Every time I see a child walking down the street I like to trip them. While they look for their missing teeth, I personally remind them that no matter how hard they try I will always be better than them.

  Zach Braff

  Children, Missing, Trying

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• One time this guy on the street wanted me to give him a medical opinion, because I'm a doctor on TV. I'm also a real doctor. But I'm also Zack Braff, so I kicked him in the groin.

  Zach Braff

  Real, Doctors, Giving

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• I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.

  Felix de Weldon

  Men, Ambassadors, London

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• It's the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you'll keep it under control. If you don't make any noise, the bogeyman won't find you. But it's all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.

  Sophie Scholl

  People, Torches, Doe

  As quoted in "O2 : Breathing New Life Into Faith" by Richard Dahlstrom, Ch. 4 : Artisans of Hope: Stepping into God's Kingdom Story, (p. 63), 2008.

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• Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a light way of sweeping, as if removing the dirt were not as important as moving the broom over the ground. Her way of sweeping was symbolic; so airy, so fragile, with a broom she tried to sweep away all the horrors, all the loneliness, all the misery that had accompanied her all her life.

  Reinaldo Arenas

  Mother, Loneliness, Moving

  Reinaldo Arenas (2010). “Before Night Falls”, p.142, Profile Books

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• You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

  Bill Bryson

  Couple, Cities, Islands

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.15, VNR AG

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• The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.

  William H. Whyte

  Cities, Rivers, Together

  William H. Whyte (2012). “City: Rediscovering the Center”, p.7, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Street fights are unpredictable, dirty fights.

  Imi Lichtenfeld

  Art, Dirty, Fighting

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• I always think street but train sport.

  Conor McGregor

  Sports, Art, Thinking

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• WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Success, Wall, Heaven

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.235, University of Georgia Press

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• My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

  James Woods

  Attitude, Snow, Hollywood

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