Street Quotes

• We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Wall
  • Promise
  • Security

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

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Hear
  • 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

• I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.

  

  Alex Webb
  • Street
  • Photographer
  • Corner

• 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

• 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 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 wouldn't walk across the street to piss down Don Shula's throat if he was on fire.

  

  Johnny Unitas
  • Fire
  • Street
  • Across

• 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

• 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

• Imagine you wake up one morning with a knock at the door, and when you answer, there's Denzel Washington announcing that he's going to be filming on your street for several weeks.

  

  Stephen Henderson
  • Morning
  • Street
  • Filming

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Business
  • Night
  • Thought

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

  

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Jack Roy
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Moving

• It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.

  

  Israel Horovitz
  • Street
  • Old Age
  • Good Shape

• The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.

  

  Charles Reznikoff
  • Street
  • Curves
  • Asphalt

• The street is where we all learn. I played organized football growing up as well, but when that was over, I went right to the street. I remember twisting my ankles, breaking my thumb, I hurt everything when I was little playing street ball.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Remember
  • Hurt
  • Learn

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