Street Quotes - page 2

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. (Victor Hugo)
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. View quote
Max Müller
We got a real clear picture of what they all value. Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first hundred days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, 'unchain Wall Street.' View quote
Joe Biden
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. View quote
Dave Barry
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
When you are into mathematics, you have been so high on the scale of complexity of reasoning that you are living in some kind of altered reality. You think everybody on the street is able to understand complicated reasoning [...]. And you get very frustrated, when you discover that's not the case. View quote
Cédric Villani
It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways. View quote
Glenn Close
Freedom isn't just about voting and marrying and kissing on the street, although all of these things are important. Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do. (David Levithan)
I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family. View quote
Jon Ronson
You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor. View quote
David Dinkins
I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street. View quote
Anthony Holden
I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves! View quote
Al Lewis
And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street. View quote
Ben E. King
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot. View quote
Debbie Allen
After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world. View quote
Dino De Laurentiis
Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well. View quote
Gavin Newsom
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street. View quote
Gavin Newsom
I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques. (Herb Ritts)
A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop. View quote
Isaac Hayes
I will always dance in the street. View quote
Martha Reeves
It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think. View quote
Stone Gossard
I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street. View quote
Suge Knight