Street Quotes

• I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Hear
  • Street

• I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Alive
  • Theater
  • Street

• My first proper kitchen was this funny little club that we set up in Mercer Street in Covent Garden. It got shut down. Then I worked at a club in Notting Hill.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Garden

• You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Children
  • Imagine
  • Sorrow

• I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Walking
  • Spot
  • Potbelly

• I began singing in dive bars and really small clubs. I dragged my piano down the stairs, and I went down the street with my keyboard, and I would go to every different dive bar that I could get to agree to let me play. I'd call and pretend I was Lady Gaga's manager.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Different
  • Play
  • Manager

• You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Channel
  • Invitation
  • Deflect

• When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Kids
  • Band

• Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Music
  • Men
  • Rap

• Tera has been living in her body since birth, so she is accustomed to cars crashing into each other when she walks down the street and getting everything for free.

  

  Evan Seinfeld Biohazard
  • Street
  • Cars

• What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Beginning
  • Found
  • Materials

• I know, he said. We are into the Bad Idea neighborhood and heading down I Have a Bad Feeling Street. (Shane)

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Bad
  • Feeling
  • Idea

• Starting off in music, the purpose of it was not to become like well known on the street and be famous. You know, I didn't even think about that part of being famous. Famous for making records, yes, but famous face in a woman's magazine, I never thought of that. I didn't want that.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Music
  • Purpose
  • Famous

• Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Life
  • Party
  • Life's

• Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Street
  • Guns N Roses
  • Motley Crue

• A homeless guy came up to me on the street, said he hadn't eaten in four days. I told him, "Man, I wish I had your willpower.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Wish

• It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes.

  

  Josh Dallas
  • Street
  • Calling
  • Prince Charming

• I'd love to get fat on camera. Wouldn't that be great? I'll tell you what's almost as hard though, getting bulked up, getting that big. Here we are in LA and you see guys walking down the street and everyone looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's really quite grim, if you haven't done it before.

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • Great
  • Like
  • Guys

• I was living in my van, playing on the street for almost two years.

  

  Tones and I
  • Playing
  • Street
  • Van

• I came from a real tough neighborhood. On my street, the kids take hubcaps - from moving cars.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Moving

• It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Street
  • Barren
  • Stoney

• I paint for the check cashing place down the street.

  

  Trixie Mattel
  • Street
  • Check

• Of course I like to look at pretty girls in the street. What hot-blooded boy doesn't.

  

  Brian Thomas Littrell The Backstreet Boys
  • Street
  • Pretty Girl
  • Blooded

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