Quotes of: Street-corner Keyword

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

Gregory Corso

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.

Dana Spiotta

We don't have spittoons on street corners any more. It's no longer acceptable to spit on the street.

Harvey V. Fineberg

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

Kelly McGillis

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

Pat Paulsen

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

Albert Camus

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.

Albert Camus

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Ben Nicholas

Did you ever stand on a street corner in American at five o'clock in the morning? I did.

Jack Kerouac

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.

Theodore White

The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation.

Rex Hunt

But, objectively, beyond the level of thought, the drunk on the street corner is equally a child of God.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Ben Nicholas

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.

Gerald Massey

'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'

Bayard Taylor

Sefton: If I ever run into any of you bums on a street corner, just let's pretend we've never met before.

Stalag 17

Curt Henderson: Someone wants me. Someone roaming the streets, wants ME... Will you turn the corner?

American Graffiti

Not a scar just psychological, But as material as roaches, Street corners and billy clubs. A wound reopened systematically, Inflicted with economic anarchy And "No Help Wanted" signs.

Love

Moonlight does things to a street scene that no other natural or man-made phenomenon can effect. People walk slower, their smiles lingering on contended faces. Horses that usually move along fast enough to stir up the dust off the street plod lazily ...

The Devil's Dime

Lines and Squares Whenever I walk in a London street, I'm ever so careful to watch my feet; And I keep in the squares, And the masses of bears, Who wait at the corners all ready to eat The sillies who tread on the lines of the street, Go back to thei...

A.A. Milne

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

Alanis Morissette