Streets famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
-- Aimee Bender -
I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
-- Al Pacino -
I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.
-- Alice Barrett -
I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game.
-- Allen Iverson -
People are so busy anyway they don't see you or recognise you in the street.
-- Andrea Corr -
In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.
-- Ang Lee -
Remember the people in the back streets of Derby.
-- Arthur Christiansen -
There are champions everywhere. Every street's got them. All we need to do is train them properly.
-- Arthur Lydiard -
I am not scared, I will not be silenced, and I will continue to take to the streets and criticise any wrong doing that I see.
-- Asmaa Mahfouz -
It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.
-- Audrey Tautou -
But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
-- Barry Gibb -
Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
-- Barry White -
And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.
-- Ben E. King -
I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
-- Ben Whishaw -
We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.
-- Bob Cousy -
Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.
-- Bob Dylan -
You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.
-- Bob Marley -
I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.
-- Bonnie Wright -
If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph
-- Bruce Gilden -
Yes, Yes Yall, You know we talkin it all see how we bringing the street corner to Cargenie hall
-- Busta Rhymes -
I went down to Miami, and somebody saw me on the streets, and that's how I got into modeling.
-- Channing Tatum -
I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone.
-- Charles Bukowski -
The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.
-- Charles C. Mann -
Compassion is never compassion until you cross the street and go do something about it.
-- Christine Caine -
Well, keep your mother off the streets and I won't f**k her!
-- Christopher -
An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
-- Clement Attlee -
It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened.
-- Collin Peterson -
All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.
-- Dana Spiotta -
Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.
-- David Bonderman -
I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.
-- David Nicholls -
You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
-- Diane Arbus -
I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.
-- Doug E. Fresh -
In the house, and on the street, how many, many feet you meet.
-- Dr. Seuss -
I cry a lot. I'll cry because I see a person walking down the street looking lonely.
-- Drew Barrymore -
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
-- Eddie Van Halen -
My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.
-- Edith Piaf -
Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets.
-- Edward Ruscha -
Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!
-- Eliot Spitzer -
I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still.
-- Emily Dickinson -
Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.
-- Ernest Greenwood -
Don't believe everything you hear on the street.
-- Ernie Isley -
I've been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world.
-- Franklin Graham -
Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have
-- Gavin Newsom -
Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.
-- George Soros -
I'm very down-to-earth. I think I'm still 'street'.
-- Gerard Butler -
By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful.
-- Gerry Cooney -
Will still produce considerable overlook and shadowing on adjoining streets.
-- Greg Nickels -
Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.
-- Gregory Corso -
There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street.
-- Harper Lee -
I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me
-- Harry Dean Stanton -
People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.
-- Harry Reid -
One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.
-- Hermann Hesse -
As much as Id love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.
-- Holliday Grainger -
People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good.
-- Hugo Weaving -
Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.
-- Imre Kertész -
Everything in the street today seems soft focus.
-- Irvine Welsh -
If I see a cool chick in the street, I'll watch her going by, won't I?
-- Isaac -
Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.
-- Jacques Audiard -
I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.
-- James Frey -
Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.
-- Jane Jacobs -
I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.
-- Janice Dickinson -
Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasnt always translated to the streets.
-- Jason Wu -
I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.
-- Javier Bardem -
One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.
-- Jean Genet -
The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.
-- Jenny Holzer -
When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets.
-- Jim Carrey -
Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.
-- Joe Frazier -
Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.
-- Johan Cruijff -
That's why I was out in the streets. To make sure no one else was there.
-- John Matuszak -
I was very impressed with the street food of Singapore. I was very impressed with the dishes that they did.
-- Jose Andres -
I'm afraid that if I raced you on the street I'd push you to your death.
-- Keiichi Tsuchiya -
To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.
-- Kelly McGillis -
Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can't have one with out the other. They coincide.
-- Kevin Gates -
I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a safe place to go.
-- Lateefah Simon -
There is equality in the office but not on the street
-- Louise Burfitt-Dons -
Love! The poor word. How it has suffered up and down the streets of the world.
-- Louise Closser Hale -
I will sing in San Francisco if I have to sing in the streets, for I know that the streets of San Francisco are free.
-- Luisa Tetrazzini -
People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.
-- Macaulay Culkin -
If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him.
-- Mario -
Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.
-- Mariska Hargitay -
No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, Onward toward mediocrity.
-- Martin de Maat -
Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.
-- Mary J. Blige -
According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.
-- Maureen Corrigan -
The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.
-- Max Cannon -
The best thing about the E Street Band was we had the best lead singer around.
-- Max Weinberg -
I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.
-- Michael Parkinson -
The street is the best way to become a good footballer.
-- Michel Patini
