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Quotes About Street

There's a joke in economics about the drunk who loses his keys in the street but only looks for them under the lightposts. When asked why, he says, 'because that's where the light is.' That's the problem with the deficit.
~ Christina Romer
I'm lucky that I can walk down the street, and maybe one person will recognise me from 'The Simpsons,' and another person will recognise me from 'Spinal Tap,' and it's always surprising.
~ Harry Shearer
What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.
~ Pete Townshend
I would like to do theaters. That's always been a dream. I think that would be a good way to tour. But for the most part, in terms of, do I want to get recognized on the street? No. There's not much I want about fame.
~ Neal Brennan
The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.
~ Ron Chernow
And his employees already are entrenched at the corner of Whip-me-Whop-me Street at Mrs. Cresswell's old Flagellites Club." Aurelia raised her eyes. "Surely in such a sweet old house it would feel almost vulgar to be alive!
~ Ronald Firbank
That street was like a dismal gash, endless, with us at the bottom of it, filling it from side to side, advancing from sorrow to sorrow, toward an end that is never in sight, the end of all the streets in the world.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
It turned out Juicy's place took the prize: a mansion in Westchester County. He'd once muttered "north of Harlem"—probably trying to maintain his street cred. Which was imaginary. He lived in a ten-bedroom house in Rye.
~ Lydia Millet
Adstreams floated everywhere, their unbearable lightness of being -- their simple promise -- catching you up: until the crown of butterflies round your head morphed into a crown of thorns and you found you had surrendered your intimate data to some twink-farmer forty blocks away on Pierpoint Street.
~ M. John Harrison
Já agora creio que não basta que os pregões de rua, como os opúsculos de seminário, encerrem casos, pessoas e sensações; é preciso que a gente os tenha conhecido e padecido no tempo, sem o que tudo é calado e incolor.
~ Machado de Assis
All terrific but the people. THE PEOPLE. Everyone looks so exalted, or so wretched, or so spiffy, so funny, so splendid. If you are ever bored or blue, stand on the street corner for half an hour.
~ Maira Kalman
The inner hatreds of men are now projected outside. There are fights in the streets. Revolutions in France, they say. Men did not seek to resolve their own personal revolutions, so now they act them out collectively.
~ Anais Nin
West Street, but the sidewalks were
~ Andrew Britton
her feet and legs. The children are silent, as if awed by the sound. "A fuel tank in a house on Seventh Street," she
~ Anita Shreve
Guess what most families on our street have: (a) a swimming pool (b) tennis courts (c) a cook named Agnes (d) all of the above. The answer is (d) all of the above.
~ Ann M. Martin
The spectacular operations of the PFLP, meanwhile, began to attract legions of young Europeans, who saw in the airline hijackings a willingness to risk everything to achieve liberation. This was a time not only of cold war, but of revolution, inspired in part by massive and worldwide street protests against
~ Sandy Tolan
You ready to play? Dave asked, bouncing it. I don't know, I said. Are you going to cheat? It's street ball! He said checking it to me. Show me that love. So chessy, i thought. But as i felt it, solid against my hands, i did feel something. I wasn't sure it was love. Maybe what remained of it, though, whatever that might be. All right, I said. Let's play.
~ Sarah Dessen
There was a guy roasting chestnuts on the street corner, and the smell wafted over, hinting at the coming Winter, but in a good way, in the way that makes you think about Christmas and snow days and fires crackling away in fireplaces.
~ Sarah Dunn
alter kocker like me. Street-word is Hal hired Coral
~ Scott Turow
full of stories about the old man's exploits. As for the house at 100 High Street, it was
~ John Bellairs
The stubbornness of an idealist; and the soul of a street fighter
~ John C. Bogle
His grandfather used to say that there were angels whom devils would greet on the street. If that were true, thought Parker, then let the devils raise their hats to him. It would just make them easier to identify and destroy.
~ John Connolly
But I'm expected. Palfrey. I—" "Oh, yes, sir! Better not try to get the jeep along the street, though Mind
~ John Creasey
My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it's low-resolution.
~ Kiki Smith