Street Quotes - page 8

Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money. (P. J. O'Rourke)
It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty and deprivation in our own country. Try standing unarmed on a street corner in Compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
He crossed the street toward the man in the trench coat, which left me with two choices: follow my dad and see what was going on, or do what I was told. I decided on the slightly less dangerous path. I went to retrieve my sister. View quote
Rick Riordan
The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds. View quote
Rob Sheffield
Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it. View quote
Robin Wright
I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character. View quote
Sarah Zettel
If you're going down the street and you're going the wrong way, remember - God permits U-turns. View quote
Suze Orman
They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed-run over, maimed, destroyed-but they continued to play anyhow. View quote
Philip K. Dick
It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble. View quote
Frank Peretti
We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length. View quote
Helen Fisher
Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door. (Hilary Mantel)
Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on me in the street. View quote
Hugh Jackman
Put shortly, and in the language of the man of the street, this means that God is good, that man is immortal, and that as we sow so we must reap. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home. View quote
Shari Arison
Remember what I've told you. Looks can often deceive you. A poor man can don the robes of a prince and a prince can be shoeless in the street. We judge people by what their actions are, not by the clothes they wear. (Eleni) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
You better hope that I never see you walking down the street while I'm driving my car! (Tory) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky. View quote
Barry Gibb
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. View quote
B. B. King
Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me... I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street. View quote
Gabrielle Zevin
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power. (Gregory Corso)
I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you. View quote
David Walliams
In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors. View quote
Alex Berenson
It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive. View quote
Alex Berenson
For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public. View quote
Alex Berenson