Street Quotes

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'
Colin Powell

Anger, Political, Enough

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William Blake

Men, Experience, Wisdom

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.
Suge Knight

Time, Mind, Heart

Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'
Donald Trump

Time, Down, Walk

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
Tennessee Williams

Heart, Human, Through

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.
Susannah York

Angry, Someone, Woman

A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
Bo Bennett

End, Around, Another

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
Pope John Paul II

Today, Him, Question

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Someone, Down, Piece

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
Colin Powell

Society, Others, Unhappy

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
H. P. Lovecraft

Tell, Places, Dare

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.
Usain Bolt

Good, Morning, Person

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
Bobby Orr

God, Sports, School

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
Carl Sandburg

Two, Rejection, Off

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.
Henry Miller

Open, Literature, False

Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!
Herman Cain

Yourself, Job, Blame

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
David Hockney

Live, House, Ugliest

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Defeat, Ourselves, Triumph

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
Willie Stargell

Family, Smile, Someone

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.
Eddie Van Halen

Music, Famous, Rock

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
Laurence J. Peter

Both, Looks, Ways

The man in the street is always a stranger.
Mason Cooley

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?
Steve Martin

Children, Find, Accept

I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.
Max Muller

Long, Soul, Another

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
David Herbert Lawrence

End, Real, Morality

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
Mason Cooley

Desire, Gaze, Menacing

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
Virginia Woolf

Time, Alone, Mind

Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.
Max Muller

Life, Caring, Dusty

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
Dave Barry

Death, Through, Fashion

Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right?
Justin Bieber

Girl, Down, Trying

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