Alleys Quotes

• We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Dream, Cities, Long

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Adventure, Dark, Back Alleys

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.330, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• Always follow your dreams, even if they lead you down a few dark alleys.

  Teresa Mummert

  Dream, Dark, Overcoming

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• We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.

  Jeff Bezos

  Dark, Pioneers, Sides

  "Amazon's Jeff Bezos looks to the future". "60 Minutes" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. December 1, 2013.

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• The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Stars, Air

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.145, Penguin

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• Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?

  Jim Rohn

  Waiting, Mind, Thieves

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 26, 2017

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• I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

  Charles Bukowski

  Long Ago, World, Beaten

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.103, Canongate Books

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• english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

  James Nicoll

  Dark, Pockets, Language

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• And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station

  Steven Morrissey

  Self, Validation, Needs

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• Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

  Marston Bates

  Reading, Research, Literacy

  "The Nature of Natural History". Book by Marston Bates, 1950.

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• There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along it seemed to me that the flattened beer cans and papers and weeds and junk mail had been arranged by the wind into patterns; these patterns, when I scrutinized them, lay distributed so as to comprise a visual language.

  Philip K. Dick

  Weed, Beer, Wind

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• I have wined and dined with kings and queens and I’ve slept in alleys and dined on pork and beans.

  Dusty Rhodes

  Kings, Queens, Pork

  "Hard times: Wrestling world mourns loss of legend 'The American Dream' Dusty Rhodes" by Neil Docking, www.mirror.co.uk. June 11, 2015.

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• But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Cities

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.657, Wordsworth Editions

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• The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.

  Charles de Lint

  Memories, Cat, Past

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• I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Thinking, Rats

  Waste Land (1922) pt. 2

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• Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Errors, Discovery, Joy

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• Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

  Don Rickles

  People, Singing, Opera

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• Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she creates an alley, a neighborhood, a history that is as rich and tragic as any Shakespearean tale.

  Walter Mosley

  Heart, Hands, Heaven

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• The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Cities, City Streets, Failing

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• Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.

  Alicia Keys

  Horse, Style, Rolling

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• Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying.

  Pete du Pont

  Country, Party, Night

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• Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

  Martin Mull

  Inspirational, Funny, Family

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Sides, Grew Up, Milwaukee

  People Interview, people.com. May 21, 2001.

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• When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

  Charles Lamb

  Children, Pride, People

  Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.133

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• A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Tyrants, Ambitious, Fool

  Speaking to the Roman Senate, as recorded by Sallust in The Catiline War (c. 40 b.c.). This quotation is a favorite of CIA counterintelligence officers.

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