Best streets & faces Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.”

Knows Giving Trying I Can Whole Faces Names Memories Nice Streets Conversation Come Up Hey Because I Can Horrific Overdrive Nice To See You

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.”

People Faces Walks Watches Streets Car Train Boat Stations Crowded Railroads Ferry Crowded Streets

Book:We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor

Source: We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor

“And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman.”

Ifs Thinking Men Would Be Faces Certain Streets Dying Cry Emotional Empty Died Silly Newspapers Remembered Numbness

Book:Ray Bradbury 3-Book Collection: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man

Source: Ray Bradbury 3-Book Collection: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man

“I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face.”

Ifs Thinking Want Looks Real Running Faces House Common Streets Cat Your Face Crossings Fur

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Kill myself? Killing myself is the last thing I'd ever do. Now I have a purpose, a reason to live. I don't care who I have to face, I don't care who I have to fight, I will not rest until this street gets a stop sign!”

Reason Care Lasts Faces Purpose Fighting Streets Killing Don't Care I Don't Care Reason To Live Killing Myself

Author:Dan Castellaneta

“An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.”

Reality Faces Imagination Deals Streets Stranger Handle Conquer Convince Sneer Irishmen

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained. If you have no personality, you may be able to save your face and, possibly, your entire anatomy by following the current fashion, but all we shall know about you, when we see you coming down the street, is that you had enough money to buy a glossy magazine and were sufficiently cunning to work out the cut of the garments shown therein.”

Ifs Knows May Enough Able Faces Cutting Streets Fashion Style Personality Currents Following Work Out Magazines Your Face Cunning Garments Had Enough Anatomy Idiom

Author:Quentin Crisp

“The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.”

Made Kids Faces Secret Records Alive Streets Rocks Band Machines Paid Guitar Debt Hungry Contact Rock N Roll Flash Unseen Blades Hustle Hunted

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I don't see makeup as a defense. I see it as a creative outlet. I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage--and at times I feel extremely weak. And who's to say a little mascara doesn't make you feel more confident when you pop it on and look in the mirror? It helps, especially in my position, where I have people waiting down the street to take pictures of me so they can evaluate and criticize every little flaw on my face.”

“The person I enjoyed interviewing the most was Elmo from Sesame Street because he is so unpredictable and he is always eating my hair and my face.”

Persons Faces Streets Hair Eating Enjoyed Unpredictable Sesame Street Elmo Always Eating

Author:Katie Couric

“It is an accurate statement that the followers of Witchcraft do not usually proselytize, which means you aren't going to find us standing on your local street corner thumping our Books of Shadows. Nor do you have to worry about jumping out of the shower to answer our serene and smiling faces at the door with your clothes stuck to various uncomfortable places on your wet body. But just because we (hopefully) aren't the forcible type doesn't mean we don't exist.”

Source: To Ride a Silver Broomstick: New Generation Witchcraft

“When you're on the street, and, as you're walking along, a woman turns the corner going away from you, and for an instant you have a glimpse of the side of her face, of the gesture of her shoulder, the shape of her body, and you are committed... You are in love for an instant, or your senses are rocked for an instant. That person then disappears and is lost to you forever.”

Persons Body Faces Turns Lost Sides Forever Streets Walking Shapes Committed Corners Disappear Senses Shoulders Instant Going Away Gestures Glimpse Away From You

Author:Joel Meyerowitz

“Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces.”

Christian Faces Atheism Streets Fool Positive Atheism Thrust

Author:William Shakespeare

“Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad; yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.”

Ifs Life Feels Faces Time Mystery Sadness Streets Anxiety Disappear Nostalgia Flight Symbols Sickness Mystery Of Life I Feel Sad

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.”

Ifs Giving Feels Shows Faces Streets Disease Depression Misery Your Face Communicable Diseases

Author:Martha Graham

“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

“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 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

“Starting off in music, the purpose of it was not to become like well known on the street and be famous. You know, I didn't even think about that part of being famous. Famous for making records, yes, but famous face in a woman's magazine, I never thought of that. I didn't want that.”

Thinking Knows Want Wells Faces Purpose Known Records Streets Starting Magazines Well Known Being Famous

Author:Mick Jagger

“Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, 'I can't believe this happened to me.' And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street?”

“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

“Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now, The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even the sight of the wounded,) Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.”

Eye Faces Powerful Forever Streets Sight Musical Crowds Endless Wounded Manhattan Noisy Chorus City Life

Book:Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892

Source: Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892

“Obviously, I'm recognized on the street and I am away from home a lot more and, let's face it, I have an action figure of myself!”

Home Action Faces Streets Figures Away From Home Action Figures

Author:Emma Watson

“Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’”

Men World Play Earth Faces Voice Streets Baseball Series Brilliant Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Doomed Teenage World Series Pals Dashing Huskies

Author:Ernie Harwell

“I am a dark-skinned, nappy-headed, scar-faced dude from the streets of Brooklyn. I can't hide from being who I am. It's all over my face.”

I Can Faces Dark Streets Who I Am Scar Brooklyn Dark Skinned Nappies

Author:Michael K. Williams

“Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into a men's shelter where they face enormous danger, or remaining street homeless and facing the violence, harassment, arrest, and exposure risks of that.”

People Men Faces Violence Risk Streets Danger Particular Gender Enormous Shelter Homeless Exposure Trans Harassment Inaccessible

Author:Dean Spade

“The only way to deal with loss - as a horribly unwelcome guest that you know will show up eventually. And so you deny it and reject it and ignore it and laugh in its face. You toss it out into the street and push it away and fight it off, and only it has landed square in your lap, only then do you deal with it.”

Knows Way Shows Motivational Faces Success Motivation Fighting Loss Deals Laughing Streets Inspire Deny Rejects Squares Guests Lap Toss Unwelcome

Author:Michael Johnson

“The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest or sea? The murengers have walled the pale, the gates are shut, but lo the thing's inside and can you guess his shape? Where he's kept or what's the counter of his face? Is he a weaver, bloody shuttle shot through a time warp, a carder of souls from the world's nap? Or a hunter with hounds or do bone horses draw his dead cart through the streets and does he call his trade to each? Dear friend he is not to be dwelt upon for it is by just such wise that he's invited in”

World Doe Soul Faces Night Cities Wise Sea Streets Battle Shapes Quiet Draws Shots Horse Trade Dear Bones Forests Gates Camps Pale Bloody Hunters Invited Naps Carts Dear Friend Hounds Warp Weavers

Book:Suttree

Source: Suttree

“Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.”

Faces Nations Streets Rocks Storm Rock And Roll Acid Mona Lisa Louvre

Book:Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

Source: Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not afraid or that, if someone hits you, you will hit him back. But we aren't talking about that street-fighter level of fearlessness. Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world.”

Ifs World Giving Heart Mean Real Faces Levels Talking Streets Willing Products Birth Resistance Fighter Fearless Not Afraid Tenderness Fearlessness Shyness Street Fighter Tender Hearts

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Running Faces Girl Sides Streets New York Scream Pigeons

Author:John Searles

“I have been....moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not be in the position that Cicero, citing Cato, ascribed to the augurs of Rome-that they should cover their faces or burst into laugher when they met on the street.”

Should May Has Beens Jobs Faces Wonder Economic Streets Position Mets Moved Rome Economist Theorists Racket Citing Cato

Author:Frank Knight

“What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they have never been on a horse. They ought to have their heads examined, really. It's a joke. But, let's face it, we live in a fantasy world.”

People World Faces Fantasy Streets Goes On Ought Clothes Jokes Horse Riding Fantasy Worlds

Author:C. Z. Guest

“Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets.”

Feels Should Mind Doe Running Faces Stuff Streets Missing Picks Manners Chips Potatoes Explaining Gracious Potato Chips Miss Manners

Author:Judith Martin

“Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement. In South Africa we have a common phrase - it's like a chant in the street and at rallies: "Wathint' abafazi, wathint' imbokodo." Which means, "You strike a woman, you strike a rock."”

Mean Faces Young Common Streets Rocks Movement South Strikes Phrases Jail South Africa Nelson

Author:Trevor Noah

“It's really on the streets, if I'm in a car, or I'm walking by, and I see a girl. And you can see it, on her face, you can see it in her step and the way that she moves and flows, and you're like: "You go girl." And it's fun, and sometimes you just have to go up and be like, "You look fantastic!"”

Ifs Way Looks Sometimes Faces Moving Girl Fun Steps Streets Car Like You Walking Flow Fantastic

Author:Olivia Palermo

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