Street Quotes

I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there. (Coco Chanel)
A man in the house is worth two in the street. View quote
Mae West
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. View quote
Warren Buffett
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. View quote
Bill Vaughan
Understanding is a two-way street. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
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. View quote
Tennessee Williams
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. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world? View quote
Rocky Marciano
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. View quote
Bertrand Russell
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. (Albert Camus)
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. View quote
Charles Lamb
Life is a one-way street and you're not coming back. View quote
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. View quote
Coco Chanel
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. View quote
James Thurber
The fall of Wall Street is for market fundamentalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was for communism. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
The street finds its own uses for things. View quote
William Gibson
I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.' (Steven Wright)
It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps. View quote
Benjamin Graham
Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet, Crept like a frightened girl. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. View quote
Virginia Woolf
The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever. View quote
Mario Cuomo