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“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!”

“We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.”

“My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the world of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.”

World Believe Eye Streets Died Ghost Kitchen My Sister San Francisco Mist Those Who Have Died

Book:The Hundred Secret Senses

Source: The Hundred Secret Senses

“New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves.”

Giving Facts Home Seems Knowing Nice Streets Proud Travel New Yorkers

Author:Katharine Brush

“Twelve years ago I made a mock Of filthy trades and traffics; I considered what they meant by stock; I wrote delightful sapphics; I knew the streets of Rome and Troy, I supped with fates and Fairies-- Twelve years ago I was a boy, A happy boy at Drury's.”

Years Made Education Boys Fate Streets Years Ago Trade Fairy Rome Twelve Traffic Delightful Mock Filthy

Author:Winthrop Mackworth Praed

“Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.”

Humans Children Joy Streets Dance Reactions Dancer Jumping

Author:Margot Fonteyn

“You can't control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you're going to get photographed. Whereas if you're at home, walking down the street you probably won't. It's something I've learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private.”

Ifs Way Trying Home Streets Walking My Way Private Life Navigate Paparazzi Coachella

Author:Ashley Greene

“In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.”

Art Cities Support Streets New York Art Is Impact Architecture Scales Aesthetic Sunlight Worthless Infrastructure Circulation Support Systems

Book:The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style

Source: The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style

“In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste. There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.”

Has Beens Culture Three Streets Century Style Taste Understood Structure Architecture Defined Paris Academic Sophisticated Urban Consistency Aesthetics Violation Refined Exemplary

Book:ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?

Source: ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?

“In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here, in Los Angeles, there are fewer characters because they are all inside automobiles.”

People World Character Stories Faces Song Alive Streets New York Adventure Thousand Pure Incredibles Block Encounters Los Angeles Fewer Automobile

Author:Joni Mitchell

“Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream values scorned by a White House that puts privilege first.”

Firsts Has Beens Dream America Values House Interest White Class Streets Middle Privilege Administration Middle Class White House Abandoned Denied Mainstream Ignored Scorned Main Street

Author:John F. Kerry

“In case after case, President Bush's actions have made American women less safe and less secure -- on the job and on the streets. As president, I will put American government and our legal system back on the side of women. I will stand up for their security, ensure their safety, support their rights, and guarantee their dignity. This nation can do no less.”

“We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.”

Social President Streets Security Wall Promise Republican Clinton Block Trading Social Security Johnson Carter Truman

Author:John F. Kerry

“It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.”

Giving Party Worry Streets Window Rome Invited

Book:Rome and a Villa

Source: Rome and a Villa

“Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.”

Home Would Be Cities Streets Rome Tourists

Book:Rome and a Villa

Source: Rome and a Villa

“My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.”

Streets Instinct Conservatory

Author:Edith Piaf

“But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.”

Knows Looks Turns Streets England Surprise

Book:The Little Virtues

Source: The Little Virtues

“Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled by disorder, cynicism, incompetence and confusion. Nevertheless we are aware of intelligence circulating in the streets like a vivid bloodstream.”

Knows Country Government Streets Worst Willing Confusion Disorder Cynicism Submit Nevertheless Vivid Incompetence

Book:The Little Virtues: Essays

Source: The Little Virtues: Essays

“My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands. But when I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.”

Knows Feels Writing Wells Children Long Country Stories Use Hands Seems Able Moving Values Known Tree Streets Wall Fit Walking Elements Long Time Tools Familiar Ease Vocation Misunderstood

Author:Natalia Ginzburg

“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

“Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.”

People Ends Today Cities Taken Streets Barbarism City Streets

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.”

Ifs Should Children Enough Streets Singing Should Have Good Enough Choir

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“In my family, my fat family, none of us ever say the word 'fat.' 'Fat' is the word you hear shouted on the playground or in the street - it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home together, we are safe. ... There will be no harm to our feelings here because we never acknowledge fat exists. We never refer to our size. We are the elephants in the room.”

Feelings Home Together House Rooms Streets Safe My Family Weight Size Harm Fats Acknowledge Mum Elephants Threshold Playgrounds Filth Elephant In The Room

Author:Caitlin Moran

“I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.”

Government Streets Wall Type Becoming Not Sure Destructive Suspects This Society Animosity Schism

Author:Alan Greenspan

“By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.”

Mean Care Women Nice Streets Window Selfish Starving Sunny Kitten Underprivileged I Do Care

Book:In Times Like These

Source: In Times Like These

“I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.”

Felt White Streets Anxiety Comfortable Hot Fifty Discomfort Catching

Book:This Demi-paradise: A Westchester Diary

Source: This Demi-paradise: A Westchester Diary

“Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.”

People Streets Crime Cost Corporate Corporations More Money Taxpayers

Book:Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

“If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government?s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes them! It is such a fraud.”

People Ifs Two Government Fighting Mistake Responsibility Streets Crime Faults Criminals Educated Making Mistakes Fraud Inadequate Incompetent

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains, general stores, tourist camps. 'Come back,' they call, 'come back.' Do they feel marooned in one place, lost, needing to believe someone will return to share their exile on the similar main streets, in the varied but always new-looking land?”

Way Feels Believe Lost Share Streets Land Return South Stores Gas Stations Camps Regulation Charming Farewell Fountain Exile Tourists Soda Gas Stations Main Street

Book:The View From The Ground

Source: The View From The Ground

“the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be in the still small voice. As we listen in silent meditation, God will be shouting protests in the street. God is warning us that we had best not try to find our security in any well-defined concept or category of what is Godly - for the minute we believe we are into God, God is off again and calling us forth into some unknown place.”

“I put on the page a third look at what I've seen in life - the reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class lesbian, addicted to violence, language and hope, who has made the decision to live, is determined to live, on the page and on the street, for me and mine.”

Looks Made Language Decision Class Violence Streets Mines Pages Determination Crosses Thirds Determined Working Class

Book:Trash

Source: Trash

“[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?”

People States America Choices Father Sleep Streets Arguing Homeless Grate

Author:Patti Davis

“I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that.”

“Everybody likes to gossip. But it can be a little scary to have people knowing secrets about me when I don't know anything about them. It's not exactly a two-way street there.”

People Knows Way Littles Two Secret Knowing Streets Fame Scary Likes Gossip Two Ways Two Way Street

Author:Ally Sheedy

“Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace in the war on the streets.”

World War Streets Finding Peace

Author:Tupac Shakur

“Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds.”

Joy Next House Church Party Grief Comedy Doors Sadness Streets Wind Return Shadow Mirrors Funeral Contrast Sigh Curtains Gladness Shutters Sadness Of Life Joy And Grief Wedding Party

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face.' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it.”

Source: Paula Rego

“New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.”

World Cities Streets New York New York City Above And Below

Book:But I Wouldn't Want to Die There: A Jenny Cain Mystery

Source: But I Wouldn't Want to Die There: A Jenny Cain Mystery

“England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.”

Children Littles Government Fall Streets Safe England Sells Clouds Islands Gray

Book:Serious Money

Source: Serious Money

“It is hard to explain to people now how hard it was being a punk back then [the 1970s]. If you had short hair, didn't wear bell bottoms and walked down the street, chances are some asshole in an El Camino was going to kick your ass.”

People Ifs Hard Chance Streets Hair Bottom Ass Kicks Punk Bells Chances Are Short Hair

Author:John Roecker

“I cruise the canyon to get some breeze With Hidden Treasures up my sleeve I like the light and hate the heat But I'll lick the blood right off your street”

Light Hate Blood Streets Treasure Heat Breeze Sleeves Cruise Canyons Hidden Treasure

Author:Katy Rose

“If I walk down the street in jeans and a plain t-shirt, I don't feel like the world sees me as I want to be seen or as what I am.”

Ifs World Want Feels Walks Streets Shirts Jeans T Shirt

Author:Rachel Trachtenburg

“My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.”

Law Decision Streets Wall Industry Independent Focused Software Expanding

Author:Safra A. Catz

“I could remember the house on Lexington Street, where the mortgage hung over our heads almost as tangibly as the roof, and we still managed to enjoy life.”

Stills Remember House Enjoy Streets Roof Hung Enjoy Life Mortgage Lexington

Book:The Boy who Made Good

Source: The Boy who Made Good

“I don't believe in mistakes. Never have. I believe that there are a multitude of paths before us and it's just a matter of which way we walk home. I don't believe in regret. If you regret things about your life, than I'll bet that you're not paying attention. Regret is just imagining that you know what would have happened if you took that job in California or married your high-school sweetheart or just looked one more time before you stepped out into the street ... or didn't. But you don't know; you can't possibly know.”

Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

“The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.”

Ifs Feet Streets Cat Dancer Ballet Pointing Lifting Pavement Ballet Dancer

Author:Vera Caspary

“New Haven cultivates ... an open gloom that seems happy to acknowledge disrepair and the superfluity of appearance. ... I realized that what cramped the town was the weight of unwritten volumes: they scored lines of unfinished writing on every second face that walked the streets.”

Writing Seems Faces Lines Cities Streets Havens Weight Towns Appearance I Realized Acknowledge Volume Gloom Unfinished Every Second Unwritten

Author:Sara Suleri

“... war reporting is still essentially the same - someone has to go there and see what is happening. You can't get that information without going to places where people are being shot at, and others are shooting at you. The real difficulty is having enough faith in humanity to believe that enough people, be they government, military or the man on the street, will care when your file reaches the printed page, the website or the TV screen.”

“If one drops dead in the street, friends and loved ones are shocked, stricken, but a long lingering death loses all nobility and drama, while relatives and friends await the inevitable end in a succession of weary anti-climaxes.”

Ifs Long Ends Death Loses Streets Drama Inevitable Loved Ones Weary Shocked Nobility Succession Lingering Climax Relatives And Friends

Author:Alanna Knight

“Black Revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. We are shaped by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets, places like attica, san quetin, bedford hills, leavenworth, and sing sing. They are turning out thousands of us.”

Black Streets Conditions Moon Oppression Hills Revolutionary Ghetto

Author:Assata Shakur

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