Streetcar Quotes

They told me to take a streetcar named desire and then transfer to on called cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian fields! (Tennessee Williams)

It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the "why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.

Albert Camus

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

Frida Kahlo

I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and Isabella in 'Measure for Measure.'

Robin McLeavy

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

Vivien Leigh

A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.

Harry Houdini

For making bread, shoes, ploughs, farming, running a streetcar, one must be specialized. Is there no need for specialization when it comes to the most demanding leadership, that of a nation? Does one not have to possess certain qualities?

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

Maureen Forrester

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

Bob Dole