52nd Street Quotes

#1. Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

Miles Davis

#2. Corsetti pulled up and parked on 52nd Street in front of an apartment near the river. He put the cop light on top of the cruiser.
"Keep the fucking traffic buzzards from hauling it off to the tow lot," he said.

Robert B. Parker

#3. 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.

Garth Hudson

#4. Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

John Milius

#5. The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.

Oliver Goldsmith

#6. From my very first day, I was pursued by men.
All of them tried to hurt me, but only one managed to break my heart.

Brian K. Vaughan

#7. You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.

Philip K. Dick

#8. Any symptom can force you to go deeper into some area.

James Hillman

#9. Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

#10. That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Noam Chomsky