Avenue Quotes
203 quotes by 183 authors
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The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue,…
— Joseph Campbell
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But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The…
— Ray Bradbury
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What, are you totally psycho?" I shouted. "Maybe I am!" he screamed back at me. "Maybe that's just what I am. Maybe I'm that quiet…
— Neal Shusterman
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Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur…
— Tom Clancy
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There are passages and doors And Realms that lie unseen. There are Roads both wide and narrow And no avenue between. Doors Remain closed for…
— Wayne Thomas Batson
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I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference,…
— Jennifer Egan
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Calvin: Trick or Treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised…
— Bill Watterson
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Foxy girls know that silence may be golden-but only for four seconds. Anything longer and you're heading for Awkward Avenue.
— Meg Cabot
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Early evening traffic was beginning to clog the avenue with cars. The sun slanted down behind him. Harry glanced at the drivers of the cars.…
— Charles Bukowski
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Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.
— Julie Garwood
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Do you remember what I told you that first time at Taki's? About faerie food?" "I remember you said you ran down Madison Avenue naked…
— Cassandra Clare
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Shot me twice. I want my name, or I'm going to start charging you a fee every time I field something for you. And it's…
— Kim Harrison
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Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may soon cease to…
— Paul Goodman
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All I can say is what you already know: some days are treasure. Not many, but I think in almost every life there are a…
— Stephen King
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One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an…
— Alan Lightman
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What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast…
— Alex Jones
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The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has far-reaching…
— Roger Tory Peterson
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As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.
— Kevin Nealon
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I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, and it felt like I was…
— Matisyahu
Who Wrote These Avenue Quotes
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