Streets Quotes - Page 12

• Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

  Tama Janowitz

  Fall, Kind Deeds, Long

  Slaves of New York "Modern Saint 271" (1986)

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• The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in which it is subjected to certain mechanical and, mainly, chemical processing, and then, through innumerable side-streets, it is brought into the depot of the body. Aside from this basic series of institutions, along which the raw material moves, there is a series of lateral chemical manufactories, which prepare certain reagents for the appropriate processing of the raw material.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Moving, Science, Long

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• Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past a men's clothing store on 42nd Street or South Main in L.A. and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. Bop.

  Jack Kerouac

  Art, Mistake, Past

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.

  Oscar Peterson

  Piano, Despair, Want

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• You know somethin', man? Some day I'm gonna be walkin' up the street one way and you're gonna be comin' down the other way, and we're gonna pass each other and I'm gonna say 'Hello, best white band in the world' and you're gonna say 'Hello, best colored band in the world.

  Chick Webb

  Inspirational, Change, Men

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• Your investor's edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It's something you already have. You can outperform the experts if you use your edge by investing in companies or industries you already understand.

  Peter Lynch

  Wall, Experts, Use

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.

  Peter Lynch

  Wall, Winning, Average

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it. Shun the enterprise around the corner, which can at least be observed, and seek out the one that manufactures an incomprehensible product.

  Peter Lynch

  Wall, Saving, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?

  Lee Wulff

  Boys, Fishing, Tin Cans

  Lee Wulff (1958). “The Atlantic Salmon”

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• No man can control Wall Street. Wall Street is like the ocean. No man can govern it. It is too vast. Wall Street is full of eddies and currents. The thing to do is to watch them, to exercise a little common sense, and … to come out on top.

  Jay Gould

  Wall, Ocean, Exercise

  "Jay Gould : A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, February 1893.

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• I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors.

  Jay Gould

  Rumor, Would Be, Done

  "Jay Gould : A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, February 1893.

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• Somewhere a bicycle bell rings. Somewhere else there's a war on. Somewhere else people turn to shadows and powder in an instant and the streets turn to funnels and light the sky with their burning. Somewhere a war is over.

  Tim Winton

  War, Light, Somewhere Else

  Tim Winton (2013). “Cloudstreet: A Novel”, p.84, Macmillan

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• Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wise, Wall, Responsibility

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”

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• I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.

  Rachel Roy

  Feet, Dresses, Video

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• The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

  Natalia Vodianova

  People, Faces, Hometown

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• Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.

  James Laughlin

  Reading, Thinking, Two

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• This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all that flesh hungering, coming together, separating, continuing, accumulating, relinquishing, aging and breaking down. Bodies as tulips bent to the demands of light, colored into blossom, spent.

  Mark Doty

  Moving, Light, House

  Mark Doty (2001). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• There are no heroes; we are all heroes on the street.

  Wael Ghonim

  Hero

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• City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.

  Leon Trotsky

  New York, Philosophy, Expression

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• It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

  Bill Schuette

  Cop, Violent, Beats

  "Bill Schuette, Michigan Attorney General, Calls For 1,000 More Police Officers". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2012.

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• The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farmers and the miners.

  Jim Rogers

  Wall, Real, Cities

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• No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all.

  Norton Juster

  Cities, Attention, Lasts

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.103, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom: there was no longer the need to compose. The subject was there already made, and I could take from everything. It all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory, with its broken and patched panels, lines on a road map, a corner of a Braque painting, paper fragments in the street. It was all the same: anything goes.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Glasses, Broken, Paper

  Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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• If you see crazy coming, cross the street!

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Crazy, Crosses, Ifs

  Twitter post from Aug 07, 2016

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