--- title: "1 Alley Quotes By Sting" description: "1 Alley quotes by Sting. Plus more from Sting and more Alley sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65a/sting-3009_alley_the-alley-is-a-pitch-for-about-twenty-wo_622416.png" --- > [“The alley is a pitch for about twenty women leaning in doorways, chain-smoking. In their shiny open raincoats, short skirts, cheap boots, and high-heeled shoes they watch the street with hooded eyes, like spies in a B movie. Some are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sting/the-alley-is-a-pitch-for-about-twenty-women-leaning-in-doorways-chain/) [Sting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sting/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65a/sting-3009_alley_the-alley-is-a-pitch-for-about-twenty-wo_622416.png) ## More by Sting > [I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sting/i-do-my-best-work-when-i-am-in-pain-and-turmoil/) [Sting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sting/) > [“Every road I walked would take me down to the sea With every broken promise in my sack And every love would always send…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sting/every-road-i-walked-would-take-me-down-to-the-sea-with-every-broken/) [Sting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sting/) > [I quite like mistakes. I think they're human.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sting/i-quite-like-mistakes-i-think-they-re-human/) [Sting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sting/) > [“...being in love is to be relieved of gravity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sting/being-in-love-is-to-be-relieved-of-gravity/) [Sting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sting/) > [I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sting/i-went-off-to-fight-some-battle-that-i-d-invented-inside-me/) [Sting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sting/) > [Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sting/like-music-yoga-is-a-journey-one-that-is-long-enough-so-you-keep/) [Sting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sting/) > [They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sting/they-build-machines-they-can-t-control-and-bury-the-waste-in-a-great/) [Sting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sting/) > [I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sting/i-can-t-really-change-my-life-to-accommodate-people-who-are-jealous-i/) [Sting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sting/) > [“You have to be yourself. Be very honest about who and what you are. And if people still like or love you, that's great.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sting/you-have-to-be-yourself-be-very-honest-about-who-and-what-you-are-and/) [Sting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sting/) > [Love is stronger than justice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sting/love-is-stronger-than-justice/) [Sting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sting/) > [Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sting/let-your-pain-be-my-sorrow-let-your-tears-be-my-tears-too-let-your/) [Sting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sting/) > [I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sting/i-don-t-think-happiness-is-necessarily-the-reason-we-re-here-i-think/) [Sting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sting/) > [I realize that nothing's as it seems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sting/i-realize-that-nothing-s-as-it-seems/) [Sting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sting/) > [“Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sting/great-music-as-much-about-the-space-in-between-the-notes-as-it-is/) [Sting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sting/) > [My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sting/my-comfortable-existence-is-reduced-to-a-shallow-meaningless-party/) [Sting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sting/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alley/sting/#itemlist", "name": "1 Alley Quotes By Sting", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The alley is a pitch for about twenty women leaning in doorways, chain-smoking. In their shiny open raincoats, short skirts, cheap boots, and high-heeled shoes they watch the street with hooded eyes, like spies in a B movie. Some are young and pretty, and some are older, and some of them are very old, with facial expressions ranging from sullen to wry. Most of the commerce is centred on the slightly older women, as if the majority of the clients prefer experience and worldliness. The younger, prettier girls seem to do the least business, apparent innocence being only a minority preference, much as it is for the aging crones in the alley who seem as if they’ve been standing there for a thousand years. In the dingy foyer of the hotel is an old poster from La Comédie Française, sadly peeling from the all behind the desk. Cyrano de Bergerac, it proclaims, a play by Edmond Rostand. I will stand for a few moments to take in its fading gaiety. It is a laughing portrait of a man with an enormous nose and a plumed hat. He is a tragic clown whose misfortune is his honour. He is a man entrusted with a secret; an eloquent and dazzling wit who, having successfully wooed a beautiful woman on behalf of a friend cannot reveal himself as the true author when his friend dies. He is a man who loves but is not loved, and the woman he loves but cannot reach is called Roxanne. That night I will go to my room and write a song about a girl. I will call her Roxanne. 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