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“In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet, They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!”

People Feet Streets Stones Nimble Fleet Street

Author:Eleanor Farjeon

“Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.”

People Ifs Wells Hands Care Streets Shapes Gun Don't Care I Don't Care Kicking Punching

Author:Bruce Lee

“In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?”

People Children War Fighting Streets Logic Cynical Brutality

Author:Maxim Gorky

“People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'”

People Streets Come Up Corners Bars Hey Street Corners

Author:Pat Paulsen

“People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.”

People Ifs Law Lost Pleasure Cities Sun Streets Desert Cushions Searching For Love

Book:A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

“If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.”

“There isn't a single government agency that can't function. There's more money in this federal government, there's more money allocated than these people can possibly spend. They have to concoct asinine ways to spend it, like advertising for new food stamp users. I've gotten to the point, I'm just so righteously indignant and offended at the very idea that our government could ever run out of money when we've got a printing press, for crying out loud. Printed three and a half trillion dollars over seven years and flooded Wall Street with it.”

“Business has to have capital.I think Wall Street is a necessary ingredient of the global economy, you've just got to keep people realizing that helping clients is the most important thing, not helping yourself.”

People Thinking Important Helping Realizing Economy Streets Wall Important Things Ingredients Clients Global Economy Help Yourself

Author:John Kasich

“When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.”

People Want Important Rooms Streets Draws Importance Crowds Landscape

Author:John French Sloan

“A long time ago, I took a walk down a street in Harlem in New York City. I came upon a man who asked me for a dollar. He had asked a few other people before me, but they only passed him by without glancing his way. I stopped and handed the man some money. As I began to turn away, he reached out and shook my hand. He looked me in the eyes and said, "I will bless you." Now, I'm not saying that was God Himself. But how do we know that it wasn't someone working for him, walking around in disguise, just to see what we would do?”

Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“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

“But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.”

People Sky Streets

Author:Barry Gibb

“Minnesota is a state of public-spirited and polite people, where you can get a good cappucino and eat Thai food and find any book you want and yet live on a quiet tree-lined street with a backyard and send your kids to public school. When a state this good hits the jackpot, it can only be an inspiration to everybody.”

People Want Book States Inspiration Kids School Tree Streets Quiet Polite Public School Backyards Spirited Minnesota Thai Jackpot Thai Food

Author:Garrison Keillor

“There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.”

People Real Walks Streets Metaphor Book Of Disquiet

Book:The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon

Source: The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon

“Relationships are two people; everyone is accountable. A lot goes into a relationship coming together, and a lot goes into a relationship falling apart. Even if it's 98 percent the other person's fault, it's 2 percent yours.... You can only clean up your side of the street.”

People Ifs Persons Two Together Fall Sides Streets Percent Clean Faults Falling Apart Your Side Coming Together

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down.”

People Facts Fiction Streets Television Walking Stranger Tone Stranger Than Fiction

Author:Ricky Gervais

“Well I've seen travel in many waysI've traveled in cars and old subwaysBut in Birmingham some people choseTo fly down the street from a fire hose.Doin' some hard travelin'...from hydrants of plenty.”

People Wells Hard Fire Streets Car Plenty Traveled Birmingham

Author:Phil Ochs

“About the presence of death and dying I don't remember the society in the 1950s being so skittish as it has since become. People still died at home, among relatives and friends, often in the care of a family physician. Death was still to be seen sitting in the parlor, hanging in a butcher shop, sometimes lying in the street.”

People Stills Sometimes Home Care Remember Death Lying Streets Dying Sitting Died Shops Death And Dying Physicians Butchers Parlor Relatives And Friends

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people.”

People Eye My Own Streets Shoulders Pope

Author:Michael Servetus

“If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver.”

People Ifs Might America Streets Sells Silver Knives Retail Sheffield

Book:Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey ... [etc.] in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, with Economical and Political Observations Relative to Matters Applicable To, and Illustrated By, the State of Those Counties Respectively

Source: Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey ... [etc.] in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, with Economical and Political Observations Relative to Matters Applicable To, and Illustrated By, the State of Those Counties Respectively

“I think the reason I've survived that long is because I've taken my work so seriously. Maybe sometimes too seriously, but it's always been important for me to do my best regardless of the film. I think the biggest compliment I get is when people on the street stop me and say they've liked the choices I've made.”

People Thinking Long Made Important Sometimes Reason Film Choices Taken Streets Compliment Survived

Author:Matt Dillon

“I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change people's perception of you so they'll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it's hard to change that.”

People Firsts Kind Mean Different Hard Play Wanted Guy Stuff Streets Poet Materials Perception Notion Different Kinds

Author:Matt Dillon

“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.”

“But at some point, you know that - you know what poem keeps going through my mind is, "first they came for the Jews." People, all of us, are like, "Well, this news doesn't really affect me." "Well, I'm not a bondholder." "Well, I'm not in the banking industry." "Well, I'm not a big CEO." "Well, I'm not on Wall Street." "Well, I'm not a car dealer." "I'm not an auto worker." Gang, at some point, they're going to come for you!”

People Knows Mind Firsts Wells Bigs Streets Car Wall Industry News Workers Jew Keep Going Ceo Banking Gang Dealer Car Dealer

Author:Glenn Beck

“You've got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see. And if you try a little kindness, Then you'll overlook the blindness Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets.”

People Ifs Trying Littles Shows Light Kindness Streets Shining Blindness Narrow-minded

Author:Glen Campbell

“I'm a poor kid from the streets. What I've been able to achieve has really just been through hard work and not letting anyone tell me that I couldn't do something. I always try to encourage people to just pursue your dreams.”

People Trying Hard Dream Kids Able Poor Streets Achieve Hard Work Pursue Your Dreams Pursue Your Dreams

Author:Dave Bautista

“They [his 'Street Scene' paintings and drawings,he made in Berlin] originated in the years 1911-14, in one of the loneliest times of my life, during which an agonizing restlessness drove me out onto the streets day and night, which were filled with people and cars.”

People Years Night Streets Car Painting Scene Filled Drawing Day And Night Restlessness Time Of My Life Agonizing Painting And Drawing

Author:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

“The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money. The people who ran them did not understand their own businesses, and their regulators obviously knew even less.”

People Self Bigs Streets Wall Dumb Firm Ran Own Business Regulators

Book:The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

“I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted.”

People Thinking Persons Wanted Streets My Friends Treats Crowds Denial

Author:Emma Watson

“Remember the people in the back streets of Derby.”

People Remember Streets Derby

Author:Arthur Christiansen

“When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.”

People Ifs Body Lines Rooms Groups Influence Streets Produce Limits Impression Setting Settings Midst Portraits Living Room Totality

Author:Medardo Rosso

“Maybe that's what is crazy: to want to be free. A lot of people wouldn't cross the street for it.”

People Want Crazy Streets Crosses

Author:George Jonas

“From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance.”

Source: The Formation of national States in Western Europe

“Most people can't imagine a life that is any different from the one they are actually living. They can dream about it, they can even go into the streets and demonstrate for it, but they still can't imagine what it would be like.”

People Life Stills Different Dream Would Be Imagine Streets Actually Living

Book:Waiting for the dark, waiting for the light

Source: Waiting for the dark, waiting for the light

“There are stories about winter ghosts found tangled like lice in their lovers' hair. Dead people have no hair themselves, which is how they can be recognized in winter. But in summer, the living and dead may pass each other on the street, and no one knows the difference.”

People Knows May Stories Found Differences Streets Hair Lovers Summer Winter Ghost Tangled Dead People Lice

Book:Magic for Beginners

Source: Magic for Beginners

“You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.”

People Bigs Order Boys Streets Ought Safe Achievement Medical Dictatorship Polite Transport Punctual

Book:The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)

Source: The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)

“There is a view that jazz is 'evil' because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street and on the streets of New York City were the musicians. They were doing the greatest healing work. They knew how to punch through music that would cure and make people feel good.”

People Feels Evil Views Cities Healing Streets New York Musician Jazz Feel Good Cures Priests New York City Evil People

Author:Garth Hudson

“More and more people each year are going abroad for Christmas ... Fed up with the fact that commercial Christmas starts in October. Fed up with carols. Dreading the arrival of Christmas cards from people they have forgotten to send a card to. Unable to bear yet another family get-together with Auntie Mary puking up in the corner after sampling too much of the punch. You see in the airports the triumphant glitter in the eyes of people who are leaving it all behind, including the hundredth rerun of Miracle on 34th Street.”

“I remember when you could always rely on those little street kids to pop a few people for the latest Nikes," Vice-President John said. "Now people get mugged for Reeboks, for Adidas - for generics, for Christ's sake.”

People Littles Said Kids Remember President Christ Streets Sake Vices Pops Rely Remember When Vice President Nike Adidas

Book:Jennifer Government

Source: Jennifer Government

“Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.”

People Sometimes Moments Happens Sound Study Wise Streets Hearing Intense Perceive

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people.”

People Real Lines Streets Ordinary Performances Theatre Real Life Protest Ordinary People Spectators

Author:Lyn Gardner

“We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there. Hit the streets to protest Bush's proposed surge. If you can, go to the peace march in Washington on Jan. 27. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it, now!'”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Trying Looks War Country Helping Running Action Steps Hell Streets Raises Ridiculous Protest March Pot Troops Our Troops Banging Pots And Pans

Author:Molly Ivins

“It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.”

People Ideas Streets Bars

Author:Anatole France

“Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.”

People Should House Poor Streets Return Habit Towns Court Crowds Contrary Plague Cleanliness Our Town

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population

“But, people are recognizing me more. Sometimes fans just approach me on the street and say how much they love the show. It's great to get that kind of feedback.”

People Kind Sometimes Shows Fans Streets Approach Recognizing Feedback

Author:Catherine Bell

“Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.”

People Shows Streets

Author:Ted Allen

“From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts of infidel and atheist, have all been for this purpose.”

Source: History of woman suffrage

“Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night, let alone the people. Don't you remember anything from your other lives?”

People Bigs Remember Night Dark Cities Watches Streets Strange Losing Mysticism Hanging Out Big Cities Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.”

People Mean Funny Sports Growing Up Growing Streets Olympics Sailing Connecticut London Olympics Equestrian Mean Streets

Author:Craig Ferguson

“The rich believe that they're different and that it is their right to pay a much lower tax rate. The response that you see from people on Wall Street, their dismissal and their almost contempt for the concerns about their culpability in the financial crisis, about the income inequality, shows that they are completely out of touch.”

People Believe Different Shows Pay Rich Streets Wall Taxes Concern Crisis Response Rate Financial Income Inequality Contempt Financial Crisis Income Inequality Dismissal Culpability

Author:Robin Wells