Avenues Quotes - Page 16

• I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices.

  Carolyn Wells

  Fashion, Hate, Home

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• The vast silence of Buddha overtakes
  and overrules the oncoming roar
  of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues;
  it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys.

  Denise Levertov

  Block, Silence, Police

  Denise Levertov, Peggy Rosenthal (2006). “Making Peace”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• The reliance on social media as the avenue to get peer insight continues to increase.

  Bob Johnson

  Media, Peers, Social

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• The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.

  George W. S. Trow

  Men, Twenties, Massachusetts

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• The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Spiritual, Civilization, Cities

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• advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Mother, Children, Opportunity

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• The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new. Most successful businessmen are in that role. 'No' is never perceived as the end of the line. 'No' just means picking a new avenue.

  Sharon Stone

  Philosophy, Mean, Successful

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• The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.

  Carson Grant

  Art, Strong, Children

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

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• Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.

  A.J. Cronin

  Friendship, Circles, Routine

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• In the swirling rain that came at dusk the broad avenue glistened with that deep bluish tint which is so widely condemned when it is put into pictures.

  Stephen Crane

  Rain, Book, Broads

  David Halliburton, Stephen Crane (1989). “The Color of the Sky: A Study of Stephen Crane”, p.82, Cambridge University Press

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• Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Men, Choices

  "The Way Things Ought to Be" by Rush Limbaugh, Pocket Books, (p. 52), October 1992.

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• Most of my escapades were getting my Labrador dog into the back of my car to drive to Brooklyn where I worked at Avenue M Studios shooting a soap opera and battling being a 17 to 18-year-old playing twins being afraid that I was going to get fired, because who wouldn't fire me? I had no idea what I was doing.

  Anne Heche

  Dog, Fire, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

  Leon Panetta

  Israel, Cooperation, Authority

  "Netanyahu spokesman: Palestinians to blame for deadlock". The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. December 03, 2011.

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• Once upon a time I was riding on the top of a First Avenue bus, when I heard a mythical housewife say to another, "Molly, my dear, I would have bought that new brand of toilet soap if only they hadn't set the body copy in ten point Garamond." Don't you believe it. What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

  David Ogilvy

  Believe, Once Upon A Time, Riding

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• Man's genius has with God's help produced marvelous technical inventions from creation, especially in our times. The Church, our mother, is particularly interested in those which directly touch man's spirit and which have opened up new avenues of easy communication of all kinds of news, of ideas and orientations.

  Pope Paul VI

  Mother, Communication, Men

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• The fact that there are singer-songwriters dealing with substantive issues is encouraging. It's important for young people to perceive that there are acceptable avenues of dissent, because we live in a world where dissent is hard-pressed; treated as if it were unpatriotic. I've always liked the concept of the loyal opposition. It allows for dissent to be a respectable part of the whole.

  Mary Travers

  Issues, People, Important

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• Countries can be redeemed. Entire cultures can be brought to "salvation". The land itself can be healed. ... And such miraculous change is brought about by one primary avenue: God working through the market place. ... The primary means to true revival, though, takes place first in the market place.

  Ed Silvoso

  Country, Mean, Land

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• Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.

  Andy Grove

  Country, Tanks, Pennsylvania

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• If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril.

  Cory Booker

  Children, Educational, Opportunity

  "Brick Towers" by Cory Booker, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2005.

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• 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.

  Stone Gossard

  School, Firsts, Hills

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• The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Crazy, Men, Ideas

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• My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.

  Bobby Flay

  Space, Parks, Location

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• One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Crazy, Ocean, Book

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• You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.

  Dick Gregory

  Mean, Done, Advertising

  Dick Gregory (1966). “From the Back of the Bus”

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• The low-ceiling price bazaar for sexual relief was a street called Middie Alley. You could barely get a pushcart through this avenue. Top price-twenty-five cents.

  W. C. Fields

  Twenties, Ceilings, Relief

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