Street Quotes

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.
Jimmy Wales

Good, Freedom, Government

First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.
Jim DeMint

Win, Vote, Wall

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.
Roberto Cavalli

Age, Family, War

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House.'
Hugh Laurie

Down, Big, Difficult

I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast corner. It is to never ever make a smooth entrance, always to get caught looking lost on the street.
Sloane Crosley

Live, Someone, Lost

Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking in front of you whose thighs you could hit a golf ball through, and maybe that makes you depressed.
Sloane Crosley

Girl, Down, Through

If I go into a sandwich shop or anywhere that features 'Today's specials' on a chalkboard more than 10 feet away, I have to ask for a printed menu. I smile at people I don't know on the street and ignore those I do. When at home, I often find myself grabbing my 'back-up' glasses to search for the better-loved pair I have left on top of my dresser.
Sloane Crosley

Home, Smile, Today

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
Robert Doisneau

Life, Daily, Find

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
John le Carre

Writing, Walking, Pie

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.
John le Carre

Family, Mean, Down

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.
Serena Williams

Down, Keep, Gun

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
Naguib Mahfouz

Work, Home, Story

If you walk down the street, within five minutes you will see someone who is morbidly obese or obese.
Carnie Wilson

Someone, Down, Walk

I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.
Carnie Wilson

Someone, Down, Picture

I've had so much stress in the last year so it's really a struggle. I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.
Carnie Wilson

Struggle, Stress, Someone

I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.
Lewis Black

Father, Playing, Started

Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
Rahm Emanuel

Change, Again, President

I have been 130 lbs. as well as 215 lbs. I have had blond, strawberry blond, green, pink and purple hair, and none of that has ever exempted me from having lewd comments flung at me in the street.
Beth Ditto

Hair, Green, Pink

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.
Channing Tatum

Real, Tough, Actor

I think it's a little irresponsible for women who choose surgery to then say they can portray the average woman on the street, because if the average woman can't afford those treatments, then she's going to say, 'I'm 53 and I don't look like that,' and start thinking she's ugly or inadequate.
Debra Winger

Women, Woman, Thinking

My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart.
Florence Welch

Life, Amazing, Together

I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.
Javier Bardem

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.
Adriana Lima

Movies, Jealous, Everything

Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
Fareed Zakaria

Might, Lead, Hearts

Kids need somewhere to go, so they're not bored on the street.
Leona Lewis

Bored, Kids, Somewhere

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
Ben Nicholas

Life, Down, After

Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?
Gloria Trevi

Someone, Country, Problems

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.
Gary Numan

Gay, Place, Everyone

I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.
Gary Numan

End, Before, Used

I shouldn't have to play live just because I've made a record. I get lots of letters 'cos I'm not into the street credibility thing. I don't like that whole thing at all, I've always thought of it as a very glamorous business, the whole thing about putting on a show. All the anti-hero punk thing, it went against everything I've ever wanted to do.
Gary Numan

Business, Live, Everything

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