Asphalt Quote by Karl Kraus

“The Minister-President or the richest magnate could walk the streets of Vienna without anyone turning around, but a court actor or an opera singer…

— Stefan Zweig

The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like…

— Charles Reznikoff

Big 35's whinin' on the asphalt. Grabbin' mud, and slingin' up some red dirt.

— Alan Jackson

At the Tour, you always have some fantastic days and some days where you hit the asphalt. Today was an asphalt day for me,

— Jens Voigt

Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than…

— John Huston

I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain's naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe's first film was shown here [The Asphalt Jungle…

— Diana Dors

One way or another we all work for our vice.

— Ben Maddow

I learned to swing on monkey bars over asphalt. I learned that if you fall, it hurts, so you try not to fall. But…

— Tim Cordes

In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows…

— Alyson Richman

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticide grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And…

— George Carlin

Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar sands. Bitumen,…

— Andrew Nikiforuk

And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty…

— Dorianne Laux

“gravity chains us to the asphalt with such grace, we think it is kind.”

— Maura O'Connor

The dog writhing in the gutter, its back broken by a passing car, knows what it is to be alive. So too with the…

— George Greenstein

A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled…

— Edward Abbey