Quotes About Street

There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into the mist as though it would prop up the melancholy sky and protect beneath itself the faint lonely flame on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which looked like the last grave of mankind in the midst of night and loneliness.

Below there are cyclists, lorries, men; it is a grey street and a grey subway;—it affects me as though it were my mother.

An accordion player posted himself at the curb and played La Paloma. The rug peddlers appeared with silken Keshans over their shoulders. A boy sold pistachios at the tables. It looked as it had always looked—until the newspaper boys came. The papers were almost torn from their hands and a few seconds later the terrace, with all the unfolded papers, appeared as if buried under a swarm of huge, white, bloodless moths sitting on their victims greedily, with noiseless flapping wings.

All of the sadness of the city came suddenly with the first cold rains of winter, and there were no more tops to the high white houses as you walked but only the wet blackness of the street and the closed doors of the small shops, the herb sellers, the stationery and the newspaper shops, the midwife—second class—and the hotel where Verlaine had died where you had a room on the top floor where you worked.

Zaci pe caldarîm,în strad?... E lume mult?.ToÈ›i se gr?besc.ÎÈ™i închipuie c? au o È›int?,nu È™tiu cu adev?rat încotro se duc.Strigi.Se dau de-o parte ca s? nu te calce în picioare,c?ci nu sunt cruzi,sunt doar nep?s?tori.ÎÈ™i poart? în ei propria moarte,nu o pot purta pe a ta..

U boh?, já znám i takové, které lépe odmítají, než ona dává, nevykÃ…â"¢ikuji to ale na ulici.

In the slanting light of late autumn, the gestures and bodies of people are more expressive the less meaning they have. Men stand on street corners staring at the emptiness of the day. They spit on the sidewalk and smoke cigarettes. That's the present. ...Time, approaching from afar, is like the air that someone else has already breathed.

Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs on stage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.

and, after satisfying himself that the business was being looked after, disappeared again into the busy street. They suspected that their days in Hilltop Road were numbered, that Ostrovski would dispossess

She'll hate what's happening now. Missing the routine, her days are Woodyard, Coronation Street on television... (She looked up)... You've got to find her.

I think any performing artist can do films, or, as a matter of fact, anybody out there in the street can be a film actor with no experience whatsoever if you've got a good director.

As an actor, depending on who you are, you might be stopped on the street and might not get all the privacy you want, but I'd rather have that than no human connection whatsoever.

I developed a passion for cars when I was a kid. I found a tyre on the street, and I figured that I could roll it successfully. That made me love wheels.

Casting directors I don't think are the best in Mexico at street casting. Whereas, I think, in New York and in L.A., that's more common; not so in Mexico. So it's up to you as a director in a lot of ways to go out and do that.

If you're a new artist, practice your art and share it. Set up shop somewhere, whether it's a street corner or a coffee shop. I got my start in a coffee shop that didn't even have live music. I wanted to play in coffee shops that did have live music, but I didn't have an audience.

Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet Bridgerton, the matriarch of the Bridgerton clan in my novels. It was a bit disconcerting to learn that it's actually a pub.

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

If you go out for a jog you feel threatened because all of these men start following you, cat-calling and whistling at you.

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

Being out in the street is not an expectation of privacy. Anyone can look at you, can see you, can watch what you're doing.

I'll be on the street and go up to people - 'Have you read a comic book before? Well, here's one.' You've got your pro-life people, your pro-choice people, your feminists. I'm a comicbooks activist.

Passyunk Productions is our film & tv production company. The name comes from a street in Philly, Passyunk Avenue, where the concept of The Roots was born, as Ahmir and I started out busking on the corner of 5th & Passyunk back in the early '90s.

Our pop cultural likes and dislikes are still very segregated, and that is not true of 'Billy on the Street.'

Betting shops have a big impact on encouraging on-street drinking and can often become a centre for disorder and anti-social behaviour.