Quotes of: Street-corner Keyword

It was a pretty sight, and a seasonable one, that met their eyes when they flung the door open. In the fore-court, lit by the dim rays of a horn lantern, some eight or ten little field-mice stood in a semicircle, red worsted comforters round their th...

The Wind in the Willows

Freddy Eynsford-Hill: [singing] I have often walked down this street before; but the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before. All at once am I several stories high, knowing I'm on the street where you live... Are there lilac trees in the heart ...

My Fair Lady

It's sexy and beautiful to be strong.

Lindsey Vonn

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie befo...

In the Dark Streets Shineth: A 1941 Christmas Eve Story

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

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

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

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

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

David Copperfield

I’ve had a lot of food but if you don’t jiggle me too much you can have your wicked way with me.

An On Dublin Street Christmas

The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people take what they see for the final image of it. But the most interesting thing about street art is to see it for real, to understand what it means and where ...

JR

He's my father, whoever he is, so he must have had sex with my mother at least once, and I'd love to kill him for that.

77 Shadow Street

Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.

The Street of Crocodiles

Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine.

The Street of Crocodiles

The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose,' he said. 'The rich cannot afford to be.

The Mangle Street Murders

There seemed to be no one in a position of power, from the Vatican to Wall Street, from Parliament to Scotland Yard to Fleet Street, who could think of anything better to do than abuse it....

Lost for Words

He took me down and out into the afterlife of the brightly lit streets, a haze of rain around each streetlight like a galaxy, the whole street a universe spread out like a banquet.

Slices

Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold.

Power Base Selling: Secrets of an Ivy League Street Fighter

The choice not to have sex, not to be hurt. The choice not to risk pregnancy. And then... what if she had become pregnant? The choice not to abort? The choice not to have a child?

Perdido Street Station

The streets of New York are entirely man-made and unmistakably that, so you feel as though you're on some sort of presentation platform whenever you're out on the streets.

Tony Kushner

Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.

Michael Moore

I kind of got really, really into 'Hill Street Blues' when it came out. I used to leave a class early just to make sure I could watch the episode of 'Hill Street Blues' that day.

Mark Pellegrino