Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.
My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.
The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.
Stop, Read, and Listen. It may not help you cross the street but it sure will help you go down the right path.
Do you know how rare it is in parts of America to actually see 'an outfit'? France? I don't want to be anti-French, but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.
I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.
I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.
With your absence I have realised that hoe the once, warm comforting streets have suddenly turned to become so cold and dark
If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.
You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.
I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.
I want to keep pushing the limits to see what's possible. That's the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.
I don't know if I'll ever get used to the idea that strangers know who I am. I don't know if I want to.
It seems kind of silly, but it's really nice to chill in the kitchen with a friend and bake. It relaxes me, and mixing is probably my favorite part.
I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.
There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years. It's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment.
One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
Don’t make war in daytime, because children are playing in the streets; don’t make war in night time, because children are sleeping in their beds!
Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.
In New York, you have the street; in the U.K., we have the beach. I end up being like a migrating bird, being attracted to it.
