One third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
It's insane. I've had girls throwing themselves at me since the hype started. Now the film's out I can't walk down the… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I think what the secretary Hillary Clinton has recognized is the American people are extremely angry about the power of Wall Street,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said.… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear.… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Because you are never here but always there, I forget not you but what you look like You drift down the street… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced. It's one thing for me… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I had wanted to come back to Greenwich Village ever since I had left Waverly Place, and since moving to West Eleventh… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share Image
I walk through the hotel, and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I'm f***ing insane, like I'm… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets.… — Sid Luckman Copy Share Image
We are all dishonored when a veteran sleeps on the same streets that he or she has defended. We are all dishonored… — Tammy Duckworth Copy Share Image
The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do feel hopeless when I look out and scream out through my music, and I scream out through these interviews,… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
I was a big Guns N' Roses fan when I was seven. My friend who lived across the street had long dark… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in… — Robert McCloskey Copy Share Image
Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then… — Neil Cavuto Copy Share Image
Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her. — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I feel like Hip Hop culture has always been about [fashion]...it started in the street so it has always been a thing… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
In Europe, I'm recognized on the street sometimes. And that's cool, because I don't have to live there and deal with it… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour.… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Of course I like to look at pretty girls in the street. What hot-blooded boy doesn't. — Brian Littrell Copy Share Image
Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I’m constantly embarrassed. I fidget and twist my hair and pull weird faces and stutter. Some days I feel quite confident, then… — Graham Coxon Copy Share Image
I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10… — Sienna Miller Copy Share Image
The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image