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“If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.”

People Ifs Past House Interest Streets Calling Silent Phones Corners Rings If I Could

Author:Kimi Raikkonen

“I like hiding somewhere, like, say on a bus street in a doorway, and taking pictures without people knowing - which sounds really creepy....You get some of the most interesting pictures because people are walking past not realising you're there.”

People Past Sound Interesting Knowing Streets Walking Hiding Realising Bus Most Interesting Creepy Doorways Taking Pictures Really Creepy

Author:Anna Paquin

“We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.”

Light Age Past House Magic Streets Strange Wander Pauses New Orleans

Author:Grace King

“In old grimy streets, in isolated and decaying houses, sometimes far from the Vieux Carre, in little used and secluded cemeteries, there still sluggishly circulates the ebbing blood of the past, of a vigorous and vividly hued past.”

Littles Stills Sometimes Past Used House Blood Streets Isolated Vigorous Cemetery Secluded

Author:Clarence John Laughlin

“Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.”

People Writing Has Beens Today Past House Memories Marriage Streets Century Fields Difficulty Lips Chiefs Association Echoes English Words

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Right and left; the hothouse and the street. The Right can only live and work hermetically, in the hothouse of the past, while outside the Left prosecute their affairs in the streets manipulated by mob violence. And cannot live but in the dreamscape of the future.”

Past Left Violence Streets Affair

Book:V.: A Novel

Source: V.: A Novel

“In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story.”

Sometimes Stories Past Night Streets Empty Mysterious Los Angeles Rays Bradbury

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.”

Today Action Wanted Past Streets Style Design Hero Embrace Thrust Action Heroes Supergirl

Author:Colleen Atwood

“You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.”

People Knows May Past Walks Streets Horror Shops

Author:Paddy Considine

“Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!”

Ifs Want Humans Stills Real Shows Light Past Human Beings Cities Streets Wall Standing Circles Emptiness Dusk

Book:Old Wine: A Novel

Source: Old Wine: A Novel

“Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice!”

Ifs Wells Enough Care Past Used Worry Streets Bears Creatures Eternal Rage Anxious Perpetual Locks Wickedness Malice What Is The Meaning

Book:The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition

Source: The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition

“Taking the money from drug operations and all that sort of stuff is something that goes past what most of us in society would expect a policeman should do. That temptation hits the police force at the same time as the temptation to take those drugs that are readily available hits the people on the streets.”

People Should Past Force Stuff Streets Drug Police Available Temptation Operations Policemen Police Force

Author:Denzel Washington

“Everything that's happening in our world is a function of what is going on inside of people. We are violent in our minds. We are violent with one another. We walk past one another in the street and don't even look nor make eye contact - don't speak. We can be outraged about the missiles and the planes. I'm more outraged that somebody will walk past me in the street and not look me in the face and say good morning.”

People World Mind Looks Eye Past Faces Speak Walks Morning Streets Happenings Function Violent Contact Planes Our World Missiles Outraged Eye Contact

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.”

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].