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“Even now, sometimes on street corners... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing that man's cologne... so you can sleep, even alone.”

Men Stills Sometimes Sleep Streets Shadow Corners Street Corners Cologne

Author:Ai Yazawa

“In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.”

Years Fall Asks Half Four Streets Middle Car Color Skins Corners Ask Me Spectrum Tourists New Yorkers Subway Half A Year Street Corners

Book:The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.”

Brain Feet Streets Hair Sick Shoes Corners Gray Thank God Thick Getting Old San Francisco Eighty Acid Hippie Begging Tangled Nineteen Street Corners Bare Feet

Book:A Visit From the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad

“I almost tell him that I'd never be able to do something like that, just take out my instrument and begin playing on a street corner. But it feels to personal. Yes, I'm shy, but why bring it to his attention? I'm too shy to talk about how shy I am.”

Feels Able Attention Streets Instruments Corners Shy Street Corners

Author:Andrew Clements

“My name is October Christine Daye; I live in a city by the sea where the fog paints the early morning, parking is more precious than gold, and Kelpies wait for the unwary on street corners. Neither of the worlds I live in is quite mine, but no one can take them away from me. I did what had to be done, and I think I may finally be starting to understand what's important. It's all about finding the way home, wherever that is. I plan on finding out. I have time.”

“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”

Men Feelings Faces Streets Corners Strikes Absurd Absurdity Street Corners Sisyphus Myth Of Sisyphus

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.”

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus

“Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then an· other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.”

Lying Night Politics Streets Politician Late Rain Corners Exhausted Rainy Day Best Times Night Time Street Corners Stumps

Author:Theodore White

“On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.”

People Humans Inspiration Life Is Motivation Culture Easy Technology Streets Truth Is Phones Corners Cells Trends Cell Phone Street Corners

Author:Ze Frank

“A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.”

Men Wisdom Streets Wall Stones Intelligence Corners Intellect Thrown Fragments Crushed Pipe Street Corners

Author:George Sand

“A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.”

Ifs Men Giving Firsts Three Bits Streets Arms Cold First Time Thirds Police Charity Corners Shocked Another Man Pennies Street Corners Stumps Third Time

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis.”

Ifs Would Be Given Sports Streets Machines Exciting Corners East Tennis Pitching Firing Street Corners

Author:Jimmy Connors

“Yes, Yes Yall, You know we talkin it all see how we bringing the street corner to Cargenie hall”

Knows Streets Corners Rap Halls Street Corners

Author:Busta Rhymes

“On 139 and Lenox Ave there's a big park, and if you're soft don't go through it when it gets dark”

Ifs Bigs Dark Rap Parks Street Corners Rap Artist

Author:Big L

“A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.”

People Has Beens Left Waiting Work Streets Standing Perfection Corners Disappointed Bus Street Corners

Author:Donald Kennedy

“Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down - they were still there, although no one was in them.”

Looks Stills Country Streets Police Corners Fascinating Communist Towers 80s Street Corners Bulgaria

Author:Joan Cusack

“Just one more word. If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner, just let's pretend we never met before.”

Ifs Running Streets Mets Corners Just One Street Corners

Author:William Holden

“She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes and smokes on the street corner, though she may be a joy to all who know her and have devoted her life to charity, could never qualify as a lady.”

Knows May Joy Streets Circumstances Husband Murder Charity Shoes Corners Smoke Smoking Devoted Ankles Street Corners

Book:Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium

Source: Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium

“It's a legitimate point to debate. But it's part of the reality. It's happening, but it's also true they (looters) are in the distinct minority. I think there's a hero on every street corner in New Orleans, and I think the reporting has shown that. I think the balance has been there.”

Thinking Has Beens Reality Streets Hero Balance Happenings Corners Debate Minorities New Orleans Street Corners

Author:Dan Rather

“This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.”

People Stills Decision Streets Protect Speech Singing Sitting Average Corners Freedom Of Speech Illustration Street Corners

Author:John Morrison

“The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.”

War Millions Streets Talent Military Politician Drug Sells Corners Cups Pencils Free Market Policemen Bureaucrats War On Drugs Tin Dubious Street Corners Tin Cup

Author:L. Neil Smith

“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.”

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.”

Knows Want Feels Wanted Heaven Pleasure Levels Streets Higher Glory Corners Tricks Stealing Ass Insanity Higher Level Getting High Euphoria Godlike Street Corners

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.”

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Book:Praying in the Presence of Our Lord with Dorothy Day

Source: Praying in the Presence of Our Lord with Dorothy Day

“It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.”

Ifs Thinking Trying May Streets Sitting Corners Selfish Damn Decent What If Copies Seconds Emergencies Interruptions Street Corners

Author:Brad Pitt

“You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.”

“All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.”

Feels Streets Effects Wall Corners Street Corners Syracuse

Author:Dana Spiotta

“Our street corners keep secrets, and our road signs only suggest, never deciding for us, never knowing if the destination to which they lead, is where we truely belong. Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will some day end, but that most of us just live to follow directions, and many times we end up totally lost.”

Ifs Ends Lost Secret Knowing Streets Tragedy Corners Destination Just Live Street Corners Road Sign

Author:Alex Gaskarth

“I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.”

Life Hands Time Streets Minutes Corners Hats Timing Begging Life Time Street Corners Passerby

Author:Bernard Berenson

“Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.”

Wells Interest Poor Company Roles Taken Streets Majors Rate Including Corners Credit Traditional Loan Sharks Charging Street Corners Lenders Payday

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“We need to proclaim the Gospel on every street corner, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing, even with our preaching, every kind of disease and wound.”

Needs Kind Healing Streets Disease News Corners Wounds Kingdoms Preaching Good News Street Corners

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he pointed down and said, 'Look.' I looked and all I saw was water. And he said, 'Look again,' which I did, and I saw oil on the water and the city reflected in the puddle. It was a great revelation to me. I can't explain it. He taught me how to see, and how to trust what I saw. Painters have often taught writers how to see. And once you've had that experience, you see differently.”

Writing Looks Said I Can Light Remember Waiting Black Water Cities Saws Streets Taught Standing Down And Corners Oil Painter Revelations Village Puddles Street Corners

Author:James A. Baldwin

“A drug for everything is madness. Legal or not, prescribed or not, over-counter under-counter bought for blood on street-corners-every pill separates us from knowing our own completion and from being taught by what's true.”

Knowing Blood Streets Taught Drug Madness Corners Pills Completion Street Corners

Author:Richard Bach

“To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.”

Acting Streets Corners Street Corners Mime Troupe

Author:Kelly McGillis

“It's very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.”

Way Hard Home Funny Streets Hard Work Couple Scene Humorous Studios Corners My Way France Paris Frustrating Way Home Street Corners

Author:Bob Hope

“Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.”

Feels Kind Littles Dream Happens Kids Wish Can Do Streets Television Paper Towns Corners Things Happen Papers Kansas Harlem Street Corners Little Towns

Author:James Brolin

“I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.”

People Thinking Knows Want Years Running Four Streets Office Corners Candidates Four Years San Francisco Mayors Talk To Me Credible Street Corners

Author:Matt Gonzalez

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