Avenue Quotes - page 2

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say. (Bill Sienkiewicz)
You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner. View quote
Helmut Jahn
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed. View quote
James Larkin
I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by. View quote
Jean Pigozzi
In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?! View quote
Jenson Button
What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence? View quote
Jerome Cavanagh
I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them. View quote
Julian Lennon
Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting. View quote
Kurt Angle
In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings. View quote
Norman Lear
They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range. View quote
Sharon Gless
The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories. (Spencer Bachus)
Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship. View quote
Spencer Bachus
My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates. View quote
Steve Carlton
I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill. View quote
Stone Gossard
I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans. View quote
Tom Allen
I made a commitment and a promise to Ms. McSpadden, Michael Brown's mother, that I will pursue justice with the family at every avenue, be it on the federal level or at the state level. View quote
William Lacy Clay, Jr.
I saw the passers-by on the avenue clearly and simply, in the way they are in Japanese prints [she saw some earlier, together with Mary Casatt in the 'Ecole des Beaux Arts', Paris]. I was thrilled, I knew definitely why I had been painting badly and why I would never paint that way again. I mean to say, I am fifty years old and once a year at least I have the same joy and the same hope. View quote
Berthe Morisot
I'm stranded in the jungle, Taking all the heat they was giving. The night is dark but the sidewalk's bright And lined with the light of the living. From a tenement window a transistor blasts, Turn around the corner things got real quiet real fast. She hit me with a Tenth Avenue freeze-out. Tenth Avenue freeze-out. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors. View quote
William James
What is meant by saying that my choice of which way to walk home after the lecture is ambiguous and matter of chance?...It means that both Divinity Avenue and Oxford Street are called but only one, and that one either one, shall be chosen. View quote
William James
You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity. (Banksy)
I did encounter much opposition and sheer disregard, and this was against my expectation. I was surprised that people thought that this was not a legitimate avenue to explore. Many times I heard people say that it is too early to start considering such heretical ideas. Why? I wondered. I thought it was legitimate to consider anything. View quote
Mordehai Milgrom
Descend where you will into the lower class, in Town or Country, by what avenue you will, by Factory Inquiries, Agricultural Inquiries, by Revenue Returns, by Mining-Labourer Committees, by opening your own eyes and looking, the same sorrowful result discloses itself: you have to admit that the working body of this rich English Nation has sunk or is fast sinking into a state, to which, all sides of it considered, there was literally never any parallel. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Well I rode a while, for a mile or so Down the road to the 18th Avenue And the people I saw were the people I know And they all came down to take a view. View quote
Cat Stevens
.. a yellow square, a red and blue avenue, an Eiffel tower with a camouflaged silhouette.... that would all be lit up at night, instead of fireworks. [a proposal to Trotsky of a 'polychrome Moscow', for the 1937 exhibition]. View quote
Fernand Léger