Streets Quotes

• The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.

  

  JR artist
  • City
  • Streets
  • Gallery

• The disconnect I was experiencing was that people hated Wall Street, but they loved tech.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • People
  • Wall
  • Hated

• If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • I Believe
  • Streets
  • Coaches

• When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Songs
  • Albums
  • Streets

• I cruise the canyon to get some breeze With Hidden Treasures up my sleeve I like the light and hate the heat But I'll lick the blood right off your street

  

  Katy Rose
  • Blood
  • Treasure
  • Hidden

• I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Smart
  • Streets
  • Rodeo

• When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.

  

  Troian Bellisario
  • Friend
  • Years
  • Streets

• I would drive on streets that were one-way and think, "Why are they all honking at me?"

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Way
  • Honking

• It was the beginning of a day in June; the deep blue sky unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light. The streets were, as yet, nearly free from passengers, the houses and shops were closed, and the healthy air of morning fell like breath from angels, on the sleeping town.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Air
  • Healthy
  • Breath

• I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

  

  Mickey Kaus
  • Wall
  • Read
  • Papers

• Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Women
  • Money
  • Streets

• I read sometime around 1938 of Jewish fines and some street actions against them. But I was too concerned with U-Boats and the naval problems to be concerned about Jews.

  

  Karl Donitz
  • Action
  • Problem
  • Concerned

• ...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Said
  • Stuff
  • Littles

• The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night!

  

  Epes Sargent
  • Streets
  • Beast
  • Blast

• I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people.

  

  Michael Servetus
  • People
  • Streets
  • Shoulders

• The shadow moves across the darkened streets, surveying its domain. The fog is like a living thing.

  

  Alexandra Sokoloff
  • Shadow
  • Streets
  • Fog

• Take a walk down the street and see where this is going. You no longer feel like you are living in your own country. There is a battle going on and we have to defend ourselves. Before you know it there will be more mosques than churches!

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Country
  • Church
  • Feels

• The questions that consume me, that keep me up at night, are the people that are sleeping on the streets.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Streets
  • Sleeping
  • Consume

• Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Responsibility
  • Streets
  • Take Care

• I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, 'Why do you do this?' I said, 'Because I love you.'

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Men
  • Said
  • Alive

• When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!

  

  Richard Pryor
  • People
  • Way
  • Running

• I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Feels
  • Behavior
  • Streets

• Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Streets
  • Communities
  • Police Officer

• I find that people can pass me on the street who've just seen my picture in the paper and they wouldn't recognize me. If they'd seen me on television, the heads turn. They say, "Wait a minute. I don't know who that is, but he's somebody.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Waiting
  • Television
  • Minutes

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