Streets Quotes - Page 20

• Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.

  Charles Bukowski

  Ass, Madhouses

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.89, Canongate Books

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• Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Dust, Hem

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.162, New World Library

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• As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren't cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones. I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter - probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life.

  Martin Cooper

  New York, Moving, Phones

  "The day the mobile phone went public 38 years ago, leaving New Yorkers bemused and bewildered" by Graham Smith, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 5, 2011.

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• Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Rivers, Honor

  Mary Oliver (2013). “Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition”, p.63, Penguin

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• Allure is a word very few people use nowadays, but it's something that exists. Allure holds you, doesn't it? Whether it's a gaze or a glance in the street or a face in the crowd or someone sitting opposite you at lunch... you are held

  Diana Vreeland

  Opposites, Lunch, People

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• Lord, teach us to step outside ourselves. Teach us to go out into the streets and manifest your love.

  Pope Francis

  Steps, Lord, Teach

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.113, SPCK

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• In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.

  Edna Ferber

  Girl, New York, Air

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Buttered Side Down”, p.103, Booklassic

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• Surfers are members of a different race of people from the man in the street

  Nat Young

  Men, Race, People

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• Whatever you love most, you fear you might lose, you know it can change. Why do you look from left to right when you cross the street? Because you don’t want to get run over. But, you still cross the street.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Running, Looks, Want

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• If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

  Lauren Groff

  Cat, Black, Way

  "Bit and Peace: Lauren Groff's Arcadia". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 8, 2012.

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• Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

  Keith Henson

  Children, Errors, Trial And Error

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• I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

  Henry Kravis

  Summer, New York, Wall

  "Avatar of American Finance". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 12, 1991.

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• People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn’t make sense how they’d laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone.

  Tablo

  Falling In Love, Believe, Love Is

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• I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long... Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents.

  Smedley Butler

  Wall, Marine, Cities

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

  Smedley Butler

  Brother, Wall, Boys

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.

  Frances O'Grady

  Downing Street, Alternatives, Faces

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• The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

  Tommy Chong

  School, Jail, Degrees

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• Successful entrepreneurs may hate hierarchies and structures and try to destroy them. They may garner the disapproval of MBAs for their creativity and wildness. But they have antennae in their heads. When they walk down the street anywhere in the world, they have their antennae out, evaluating how what they see can relate back to what they are doing. It might be packaging, a word, a poem, or even something in a completely different business.

  Anita Roddick

  Hate, Creativity, Successful

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• I was born of heterosexual parents. I was taught by heterosexual teachers in a fiercely heterosexual society. Television ads and newspaper ads — fiercely heterosexual. A society that puts down homosexuality. And why am I a homosexual if I'm affected by role models? I should have been a heterosexual. And no offense meant, but if teachers are going to affect you as role models, there'd be a lot of nuns running around the streets today.

  Harvey Milk

  Running, Teacher, Should Have

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• Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

  Harvey Milk

  People, Mayors, Call Me

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• So often we measure
  by what is false.
  We should measure
  by what is barely legible
  barely in our dailiness.
  It is the invisible that doesn't lie
  the invisible through which
  we see ourselves finally
  on a back street in the world.

  Peter Gizzi

  Lying, World, Invisible

  Peter Gizzi (2007). “The Outernationale”, p.90, Wesleyan University Press

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• I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.

  Liz Murray

  New York, Sleep, House

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• Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.

  Hilary Thayer Hamann

  Faces, Stranger, Muscles

  Hilary Thayer Hamann (2010). “Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel”, p.89, Spiegel & Grau

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• For groups like the Rolling Stones names like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf were exotic inspirations. For Siegel-Schwall they were the guys that played with them on 43rd Street.

  Lin Brehmer

  Inspiration, Names, Water

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• Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season is roughly that of crack cocaine. Do not confuse the two. It is almost impossible to make a decent crack cocaine tassie, I am told.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Holiday, Two, Cracks

  Celia Rivenbark (2009). “You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning”, p.44, Macmillan

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