Streets Quotes · Page 12

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.

— Fernando Pessoa

Being recognised on the street in New York is pretty surreal.

— Sophie McShera

“underlying notion that when you live in the streets; you die in the streets.”

— Elaine Allen

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

— Ben Bernanke

Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

— Susan Cain

Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this.

— Michael Lewis

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

— Alberto Moravia

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over…

— Barack Obama

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take…

— Marcus Samuelsson

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

— Will Durant

They're not parallel at all. They're my concerns, but how they're expressed particularly on the page is completely divorced from who I…

— Chang-Rae Lee

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the…

— Jon Meacham

I have a strange habit of walking down streets and staring up, rather than looking at shopfronts and stuff like that.

— Michael Redhill

I went down to Miami, and somebody saw me on the streets, and that's how I got into modeling.

— Channing Tatum

Obamacare is woven into the fabric of health care. It's very hard to just rip it out, as Donald Trump sort of…

— David Brooks

I think we are making progress, but we have long way to go. People also have got to understand the agenda that…

— Bernie Sanders

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out…

— Isaac Hayes

The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to…

— Rob Sheffield

In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how…

— Brennan Manning

You know why dogs have no money? No pockets. 'Cause they see change on the street all the time and it's driving…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit…

— David Walliams

Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?' 'London.…

— Kate Morton

How could Digital's collapse be so precipitous? It's because, in many ways, financial performance data is misleading. As you move up to…

— Clayton Christensen

One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen…

— Ray Bradbury

If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods.…

— Scott Adams

I kind of feel that once we're back in London and back in regular life, I just sort of get the bus…

— Skandar Keynes

Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It…

— Ellsworth Kelly

If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in…

— Willa Cather

One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you'd be at a stoplight and…

— Kevin Morby

Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public…

— Jason Epstein

Messi is the best that's played the game. Streets ahead of Maradona.

— Joey Barton

I used to get money and hustle and do it in the streets.

— Ghostface Killah

Even if they had it in the streets, I wouldn't go.

— Samuel Goldwyn

End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

— Ralph Nader

Life is a one-way street and you're not coming back.

— Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

— William Arthur Ward

I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day.

— Steve Clevenger

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

— Barbra Streisand