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Quotes About Street

Outside on the street early evening glowed on every face, as if the whole world was blushing to think what the night would bring.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Magic, the trick that connects the ordinary to the impossible, was the invisible river that ran through every street and beating heart in Bombay in those years, and nothing, from the postal service to the pleading of beggars, worked without a measure of it.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The streets were empty. I ran through puddles of fast-flowing water, reflecting the lightning-fractured sky. All the loneliness and all the love I knew collected and combined in me, until my heart was as swollen with love for her as the clouds above were swollen with their mass of rain. And I ran. I ran. And, somehow, I was back in that street, back at the doorway to her house.
~ Gregory David Roberts
People assumed we called the record 'Murray Street' because of its proximity to the World Trade Centre, but that wasn't it at all. Before the attacks, I had simply been walking around taking pictures of things, and I had this photograph of the street sign. We felt it was somewhat evocative and decided to use it on the back cover of the album.
~ Lee Ranaldo
I started photographing people on the street during World War II. I used a little box Brownie. Nothing too expensive.
~ Bill Cunningham
The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.
~ Sigmar Gabriel
People walking down the street would just say 'Ball don't lie.' I kinda feel like Bobby McFerrin, the mastermind behind 'Don't worry, be happy.'
~ Rasheed Wallace
When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.
~ Martin Scorsese
'Billy on the Street' is a very exhausting show to do, as you can imagine, but it's worth it.
~ Billy Eichner
I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some.
~ Anya Taylor-Joy
I stay current and draw inspiration from Fashion Week in New York as well as just by scrolling through Instagram. The runways are always a good sign of what's to come, but I also get tons of ideas from real girls on the street.
~ Elaine Welteroth
With 'Fantasy Factory,' I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation.
~ Rob Dyrdek
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
~ Pat Metheny
I'm actually one of the sharper tools in the box that haven't been in the streets like that, but I have family members, close loved ones, that that's all they know.
~ Tyron Woodley
Going to a therapist is not something you do when you're growing up as a street kid in Toronto.
~ The Weeknd
What's fun about shooting exteriors on the street in Toronto is that there are cable cars.
~ Sarah Rafferty
For the first project I did in North America, I was asked as an artist, not as an architect, to collaborate on a big development in the heart of Toronto. I was working with other artists and was in charge of giving form to a street, and I proposed a galleria.
~ Santiago Calatrava
I sat on the floor and watched TV Thanking Christ for the BBC A stupid fucking place to be Down Rain Street
~ Shane MacGowan
Down the dirty old street The Angel of the East is calling And with a trembling hand I open up a can I can hear a baby bawling
~ Shane MacGowan
soon as the lady was more than halfway across the street, I swerved to
~ Shanna Swendson
Feminists want to free all women from the threat of harassment in the street through the reconstruction of male sexuality. [...] men would have to abandon objectifying exploitative sex and redefine altogether what they saw as sexuality.
~ Sheila Jeffreys
It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.
~ Eleanor Clark
I love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before.
~ Joe Scarborough