S Quotes
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“Strays is what a writer I recently read calls those who, for one reason or another, and despite whatever they might have wanted earlier in life, never really become a part of life, not in the way most people do. They may have serious relationships, they may have friends, even a sizable circle, they may spend large portions of their time in the company of others. But they never marry and they never have children. On holidays, they join some family or other group. This goes on year after year, until they finally find it in themselves to admit that they'd really rather just stay home.
But you must see a lot of people like that, I say to the therapist.
Actually, he says, I don't.”
Source: The Friend
“Streaking through a large crowd has always been a secret fantasy of mine.”
“Streaking. That's a very stupid young man thing to do. There is something ruder I can't mention. Celebs On Sunday, you're kinda clean, aren't you? Hmm. Maybe we should stick to streaking.”
“Streamlined time details are especially important, because by having to take a close look, we discover new things. Because of this, details will remain part of the building in the mind's eye”
Source: The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1986, presented to Gottfried Böhm
“Streamlining the army with Chinese characteristics is the right choice for China in military modernization.”
“Streams and mountains never stay the same.”
Source: Mountains and Rivers Without End: Poem
“Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.”
“Streams of brown, soapy water ran from him toward the drain. It circled there before falling in. He closed his eyes tightly so that the soap on his head wouldn’t burn them.
“Here’s a little brain exercise for you, Azure: I used to wonder where all the water goes,” said Neela, sitting on a stool outside the tub. “It doesn’t just disappear into nothingness. It needs to go somewhere. But we don’t have normal sewers like the ground districts do. So, what do you think happens to it?”
“I-I d-d-don’t know…”
“There are pipes beneath us we can’t see. Just because we can’t see the pipes doesn’t mean that the pipes aren’t there. They’re there, alright. They have to be. Winding and weaving. We see their effects, otherwise we’d be swimming in filth. Some come from our sinks. Some come from our tubs. Some come from our toilets. But they’re all connected somewhere. All that dirty water is filtered out and treated somewhere. Some giant collection pool.”
Source: The Destroyer of Worlds: An Answer to Every Question
“Streams of conscious ‘knowing’ flows like the Nile when one is open from within.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Streams of consequence flow from every action, and from every conflict there are two paths by which events may go.”
“Streams of melting snow.”
Source: Paranormalcy
“Streams of the sacred rivers flow uphill;
Tradition, order, all things are reversed:
Deceit is men's device now,
Men's oaths are gods' dishonour.
Legend will now reverse our reputation;
A time comes when the female sex is honoured;
That old discordant slander
Shall no more hold us subject.”
Source: Medea
“Strebe nach diesem Kuss des Geliebten, dieser Berührung der Lippen, die den bhakta verzückt und ihn in Gott verwandelt. Für denjenigen, der mit einem solchen Kuss gesegnet wurde, verschwinden die Welten, Sonne und Mond vergehen und selbst das Universum schmilzt dahin in einen unendlichen Ozean der Liebe. Das ist die vollkommene Verzückung nondualer Liebe. (The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 3, Lectures from Colombo to Almora, The Sages of India) (S. 208)”
Source: Yoga der Liebe: Naradas Bhakti Sutra aus der Perspektive des Vedanta
“Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.”
“Street art is about as religious as I get - that's my faith, that even if people screen it out and didn't think they saw it, they did. Even if it was for a split second, it's become part of them and it's affecting them somehow.”
“Street art is designed to be seen out of the corner of your eye, on the hoof. Art that's made for galleries is made to be looked at in a more static way for a longer period of time and may not be so striking immediately, but perhaps resonates for a longer period.”
“Street children are lovely blossoms just dropped from the tree after a heavy storm. Now they need to be put together with a needle and threads of security and shelter to live into a beautiful circle of life’s garland”
“Street circuits mean that we are racing in the centre of roads that people use everyday, which is very cool for drivers, but it also makes it very easy to make a mistake, which adds more excitement for fans.”
“Street cred. Anybody who got in before ’97 is considered OK – from ’97 to 2000 it can go either way, maybe they’re not not always cool, but usually they’re not quite the kind of full-service dickhead you’re seeing in the business now.”
“He’s considered cool?”
“No, he’s a dickhead, but one of the early ones. A pioneer dickhead.”
Source: Bleeding Edge
“Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.”
“Street fights are unpredictable, dirty fights.”
“Street food, she saw. Silky pasta, doughy pizza, steaming pho, obnoxiously tall burgers. Benches had been nestled behind the Royal Festival Hall, and they were filled with people eating personal feasts from paper plates: vast thalis; racks of sticky, black ribs; half lobsters with melting garlic butter and bread. Rows of diners craning to read menus wound between food trucks; queues intermingled, new arrivals negotiating for space. Piglet looked around, the National behind her. She had left the office early, she reasoned; she had time before finding a place to work. She edged forward, walking among the tables. The benches were full, some having to stand, juggling their fried chicken with their phones. There were young men who talked too loudly, laughed with their mouths full, and wore round, tortoiseshell glasses; glamorous women in their fifties and sixties, lunching and drinking; and au pairs with charges no older than twelve who ate salt beef bagels, cacio e pepe, and laksa.”
Source: Piglet
“Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race.”
“Street gangs were really young men raised without fathers, just trying to help one another become men.”
Source: Fight Club
“Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all, it keeps them off the street.”
“Street lamps have a literary stance, a wise gaze, a poetic light that ignites romance, and a mysterious aura that touches the souls!”
“Street performances?"
"A little singing. A little martial arts. Some interpretive dance."
"Wow."
"I know! The Portuguese have taste.”
“Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!”
“Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.”
“Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it.”
“Street politics is what happens in our everyday life, living in the bando. It's the environment around us and what we doing in the streets. We [Migos] talking about how many snakes there are in the grass and talking about how people can hurt you, and talking about how that can help you gain knowledge.”
“Street posters allowed you to have the last word. If you put them up in your neighborhood, you were speaking to your neighbor.”
“Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.”
“Street rods have a Chevy in front and a can of wax in the back; Hot Rods have a flathead in front and a box of tools in the back.”
“Street sign: Ho Hum Road & Easy Street In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.”
“Street skating, which is what I grew up with, is completely free of rules. You can do anything. When I see a skater go by, I think, What is this person going to do here? It's the same with people who write, who make music, who draw, who make movies. Creative people tend to have all of those different avenues in them.”
“Street's disciple, my raps are trifle.
I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle.”
“Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.”
“Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.”
“Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.”
“Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.”
“Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Streets are like children, David thought; the small ones go to bed first.”
Source: Friends and Lovers
“Streets can have speed limit, but not kindness - ATMs can have withdrawal limit, but not compassion - tests can have time limit, but not conscience.”
Source: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
“Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.”
“Streets flooded. Please advise.”
“Streets full of water. Please Advise.”
“Streets like the one she lived on were no accident. They were the North’s lynch mobs, she thought bitterly; the method the big cities used to keep Negroes in their place. And she began thinking of Pop unable to get a job; of Jim slowly disintegrating because he, too, couldn’t get a job, and of the subsequent wreck of their marriage; of Bub left to his own devices after school. From the time she was born, she had been hemmed into an ever-narrowing space, until now she was very nearly walled in and the wall had been built up brick by brick by eager white hands.”
Source: The Street
“Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.”
“Streets teemed with hell's wretched souls. New dead with their gadgets and old dead from antiquity. Demons roamed the avenues and alleyways, tormenting hapless damned at random with branding irons, flaming pitchforks, and razor-wire whips. -From the story Remember, Remember, Hell in November, in the anthology, Lawyers in Hell.”