Street Quotes - page 9

Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand? (James Patterson)
Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression. View quote
James Surowiecki
On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough. View quote
James Surowiecki
Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef. View quote
Eric McCormack
The local rock group down the street Is trying hard to learn their song. They serenade the weekend squire Who just came out to mow his lawn. Another pleasant valley Sunday. Charcoal burning everywhere. Rows of houses that are all the same. And no one seems to care. View quote
Carole King
Today he wore a burnt-orange shirt, black pants, and a tie that looked like a street fight at the south end of the color wheel. View quote
Kathy Reichs
I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting. View quote
Christian Bale
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. View quote
Lauren Groff
Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. (Denis Waitley)
You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not. View quote
Robert Henri
I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation. View quote
Darren Aronofsky
No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared. View quote
Lana Parrilla
The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! View quote
Arthur Hertzberg
A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road. View quote
Bo Bennett
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street. View quote
Robert Doisneau
Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.' View quote
Dave Chappelle
White women in Washington who have been raped and mugged on the streets in broad daylight have experienced the most revolting sort of violation of their civil rights. The hundreds of others who had their purses snatched last year by Negro hoodlums may understandably insist that their right to walk the street unmolested was violated. View quote
Jesse Helms
As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest. View quote
Corey Feldman
My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote. (Sandra Day O'Connor)
I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it. View quote
Mike Pence
I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street. View quote
Robert McCloskey
What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street. View quote
Pete Townshend
The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process. View quote
Gianfranco Ferre