Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning. — Maria Cantwell Copy Share Image
When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Europe is a very different place from my native country of Colombia and my children are growing up in a very urban… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I… — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
We live in an age when you can prowl the streets of major cities and find human beings offering themselves in store… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought… — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
We incline to think that God cannot explain His own secrets and that He would like a little information upon certain points… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of,… — Ralph Hodgson Copy Share Image
No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, . . . . .… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I move in a society so devoid of ordinary reality that I am continually stopping to teach good sense, to give support,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
You've got the Wall Street situation, the sub-prime situation. You've got a black president. We've got wars. We've got unemployment. But the… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor… — Hugh Ferriss Copy Share Image
I don't want to romanticize the world in which everybody watched three networks and the Washington Post and the New York Times… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's… — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people… — Richard Donner Copy Share Image
Even the poorest street is rich with people on it and even the richest street is poor without people on it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I grew during segregation in an all-black segregated neighborhood with segregated schools, etcetera. I was raised by a great father, my hero,… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time, 'How can I walk in these heels?' I answer with the best compliment I remember that… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and there… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Nowadays, you gots ta walk the street and watch your back, Cause brothers with the gats don't be knowin' how to act. — Shyheim Copy Share Image
Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost. — Barry Williams Copy Share Image
This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City. — Gerald Chertavian Copy Share Image
The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a… — JR Copy Share Image