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Quotes About Street

Arthur Clennam came to a squeezed house, with a ramshackle bowed front, little dingy windows, and a little dark area like a damp waistcoat-pocket, which he found to be number twenty-four, Mews Street, Grosvenor Square.
~ Charles Dickens
The crowd in the street jostling the crowd in his mind, and the two crowds making a confusion, he avoided London Bridge, and turned off in the quieter direction of the Iron Bridge.
~ Charles Dickens
I listened in amazement. You saw a face on an American street, or in an office, and you had no idea that a tragic epic lay behind it.
~ Greg Iles
I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air
~ Gunnar Staalesen
Everyone says its a myth until one day something happens in the streets that brings it back to life.
~ Gustav Meyrink
Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job it would let me go around the world.
~ Guy Laliberte
They walk down Westheimer, a long, long street that always smells of burnt rubber and carbon monoxide, occasionally interrupted by the aromas of foods from all over the world: Mexican, Japanese, Indian, Brazilian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Guatemalan, etc.
~ Gwendolyn Zepeda
Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.
~ James Joyce
That is god... A shout in the street,' Stephen answered...
~ James Joyce
Stivenas staiga d?r? nykš?iu ? lango pus? tardamas: -Štai Dievas. -K?? - paklaus? misteris Dyzis. -Šauksmas gatv?je, - g?žtel?j?s pe?iais atsak? Stivenas.
~ James Joyce
That is God ... A shout in the street.
~ James Joyce
beautiful street in the Western world.
~ James Lee Burke
The juke and barbecue joints were loud, the doors wide open, the elevated sidewalks inset with tethering rings and littered with paper cups and beer cans, rust-stained where the rain spouts bled across the concrete. ~ James Lee Burke
~ James Lee Burke
Across from the famous jewelry store on Fifth Avenue at Fifty-Seventh Street, we sat in the back of a graffiti-covered white box truck watching the world go by on the surveillance vehicle's hidden high-def camera. So far there had been no sign of the thieves. Or even Audrey Hepburn.
~ James Patterson
He reminded me now, sharply, that one of my partners had been killed on the street and that only months ago, Jacobi and I had both been shot in a desolate alley in the Tenderloin. It was true. We'd both nearly died.
~ James Patterson
The cartels' brutally simple and efficient negotiating tactic was called plata o plomo on the street. Silver or lead. Take the money or a bullet. Do business with us or die.
~ James Patterson
then walked across the street to my favorite ice cream place on the planet, the Ice Cream Club, bought a pint of coffee and a pint of chocolate, then
~ James Patterson
I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while we're shooting, and that's always a challenge because, unfortunately, people on the street don't know not to look in the camera or interact with the actors.
~ Noah Baumbach
Cops are everywhere in New York City. Cars drive by every few minutes. Uniforms stand nonchalantly at street corners.
~ Chris Gethard
Just watching the people on the streets of N.Y. is inspiring; there are so many styles and unique points of view. Fashion is very much inspired by the streets, has always been, and I'm sure it will continue to do so.
~ Charlotte Ronson
Intelligent too, ooh you my sweetheart. I've always liked my women book and street smart. Long as they got a lil' class like half days and the confidence to overlook my past ways.
~ Drake
The freedom the bars give women is not the same freedom a woman on the street or in a brothel has. That's more like imprisonment.
~ Sonia Faleiro
I can tell by your eye shadow, you're from Brooklyn, right? . . . Me too. My mother has plastic covers on all the furniture. Even the poodle. Looked like a barking hassock walking down the street.
~ Elayne Boosler
Brother, do you know a nicer occupation, Matter of fact, neither do I, Than standing on the corner Watching all the girls go by?
~ Frank Loesser