Quotes of: Main-street Keyword

In the street below, a posh-looking drunk man is reading the card of a prostitute, Blue-Tacked up by a doorbell. He’s examining it with all the forensic care I presume he puts into reading a wine list. ‘What are you looking for?’ I ask him, in ...

How to Build a Girl

Street culture is a culture of containment. Most young people do not realize that it all too often leads to a “dead end”. “Street culture,” as I am using the term, is a counterforce to movement culture. Street culture in contemporary urban re...

Haki R. Madhubuti

Attention is a main asset in marketing.

Master of Stupidity

Were everyone to sweep in front of his own house, every street would be clean.

Dutch

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine—until it wasn't.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

The street was full of animals, milling around uncertainly. When animals are in a state of uncertainty they get nervous, and the street was already, as it were, paved with anxiety.

Feet of Clay

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

The Balcony

I've walked down the street with Madonna, and I've walked down the street with Colin Firth, and it was a little bit more... with Madonna they were a little rougher, but they were all there for Colin. It was amazing. Women adore him. They swoon.

Beeban Kidron

Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

A.G. Street's Country Calendar

But how will I know it's my destiny?' 'Like love it will possess you... You can't help but know.

The Street of a Thousand Blossoms

...she would have walked all the way up to East Sixty-Third Street, and probably 163rd Street, if it meant pouring even more into this memory that wasn't a memory.

Searching for Grace Kelly

The best lies are always flavoured with the truth but if the substance is rotten, it will stink no matter how much you try to disguise it.

The Mangle Street Murders

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

Perdido Street Station

Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

Penn Jillette

When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.

Rem Koolhaas