Top 100 In The Street Quotes
#1. The very essence of ballet is poetic, deriving from dreams rather than from reality. About the only reason for its existence is to enable us to remain in the world of fantasy and escape from the people we rub shoulders with in the street. Ballets are the dreams of poets taken seriously.
Theophile Gautier
#2. After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.
Dino De Laurentiis
#3. Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don't know how to walk! Look at them in the street. Bent over. Coughing! Young men with gray faces! Why can't they look at the animals? Look at a cat. Look at any animal. The only animal that doesn't hold its stomach in is the pig.
Joseph Pilates
#4. Of course, many people in the universe have also had the misplaced belief that they can safely ignore gravity, mostly after taking some local equivalent of dried frog pills, and that has led to much extra work for elementary physics and caused brief traffic jams in the street below.
Terry Pratchett
#5. I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.
James A. Garfield
#6. One day,I was already old, a man came up to me in the street.
Marguerite Duras
#7. As much as I'd love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.
Holliday Grainger
#8. The man in the street is always a stranger.
Mason Cooley
#9. Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited you to. But they used to be, I can admit, part of something beautiful.
Daniel Handler
#10. He was a chap like himself, with a unique pain; and yet there would be no knowing that if you passed him in the street, or sat opposite him in a cafe
Rachel Joyce
#11. But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.
Natalia Ginzburg
#12. Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself ... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home.
Gloria Steinem
#13. I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.
Jesse Eisenberg
#14. The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
Robert Doisneau
#15. Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
Harmony Korine
#16. What the world wants today is twenty men and women who can dare to stand in the street yonder and say that they possess nothing but God. Who will go? Why should one fear? If this is true, what else could matter? If it is not true, what do our lives matter?
Swami Vivekananda
#17. I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.
Manny Pacquiao
#18. 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.
Jean Genet
#19. There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#20. Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
Pink Floyd
#21. Of course I like to look at pretty girls in the street. What hot-blooded boy doesn't.
Brian Littrell
#22. It was never a good idea to confide in people. They always remembered, and when they came up to you in the street, years later, you could see the information was still firmly attached to your face and present in the way they said your name and the pressure of their hand clasping yours.
Helen Simonson
#23. The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living Darwinian is, he will say Richard Dawkins. And indeed, Dawkins has done a marvelous job of popularizing Darwinism. But Dawkins' basic theory of the gene being the object of evolution is totally non-Darwinian.
Ernst W. Mayr
#24. Good gracious!" she exclaimed, "she's been more than an hour in there! When the priests set about cleansing her of her sins, the choir-boys have to form in line to pass the buckets of filth and empty them in the street!
Emile Zola
#25. Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, Did you fall? He said, No, I'm tryin' to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.
Billy Connolly
#26. There's no honour fighting in the street, there is nothing to gain.
Georges St-Pierre
#27. I'm a warrior if you try to hurt my family. And anybody I see getting it in the neck out there, I'm right there to protect them. I'm a big, strong guy who knows what he's doing. I've stopped a lot of things in the street, stopped a lot of people from getting hurt.
Paul Sorvino
#28. There's a joke in economics about the drunk who loses his keys in the street but only looks for them under the lightposts. When asked why, he says, 'because that's where the light is.' That's the problem with the deficit.
Christina Romer
#29. For exercise, I tend to like the outdoors. In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot. I like to stay fit by being generally active.
Diane Kruger
#31. I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, we would get beat up in the street, I had my bike stolen. There was just a lot of real anarchy on the streets and sidewalks.
Sufjan Stevens
#32. I can be unkind to someone in the street or in the subway - I'm a bad-tempered person - but I'm unable to be unkind to a character. They exist because of me, and I have responsibility for them.
Claire Denis
#33. The non-scientist in the street probably has a clearer notion of physics, chemistry and biology than of statistics, regarding statisticians as numerical philatelists, mere collector of numbers.
Stephen Senn
#34. A fifteen-year-old dropped her cone, bent to retrieve it, then hesitated, abandoned the melting delicacy to the pavement and the soles of future passers-by; soon she would be one of the grown-ups and no longer lick ice cream in the street.
Gunter Grass
#35. If I see a cool chick in the street, I'll watch her going by, won't I?
Isaac
#36. They called it the bamboo-shoot existence, the onion life, every layer you peeled away made you cry more, and even if you could find the food you couldn't get it home because dysentery was breeding in the street mud and you might trail it back to your family.
Anonymous
#38. The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot.
Peter Jackson
#39. The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
Baron De Montesquieu
#40. I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.
Asne Seierstad
#41. Color prejudice is so strong that if a woman has yellow hair, even if she has the face of an iguana, men turn to look at her in the street.
Isabel Allende
#42. But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
Barry Gibb
#43. Remember what I've told you. Looks can often deceive you. A poor man can don the robes of a prince and a prince can be shoeless in the street. We judge people by what their actions are, not by the clothes they wear. (Eleni)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#44. To me, the most emotional thing is to see regular people wearing our clothes. Yes, sometimes I see our clothes on somebody, and I think, 'No!', but you can't stop someone in the street and say, 'Please go home and change.'
Domenico Dolce
#45. Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?
Gloria Trevi
#46. You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.
Carolyn Kizer
#47. Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
Zara Phillips
#48. I think a lot of artists go waving their Grammies around thanking God for their Grammy, but when it comes to a pitch battle in the street for the honor of God, none of them is anywhere to be found.
Sinead O'Connor
#49. I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.
Hannah Murray
#50. I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars.
Sinead O'Connor
#51. In the street of the sky night walks scattering poems
E. E. Cummings
#52. In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak.
Kool Moe Dee
#54. Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?
Alexei Sayle
#55. In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#56. He loved baseball so much that he sometimes went home after a game, rounded up a few of the kids from the neighborhood, and played in the street until dark.
Jonathan Eig
#57. In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street.
David Markson
#58. I used to do promo work, where you would be paid not very much to stand in the street for a very long time endorsing a product that you'd either A, never heard of, or B, didn't like.
Chris Geere
#59. Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.
Ludwig Quidde
#60. I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.
Bill Cosby
#61. You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.
Anthony Trollope
#62. England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.
Caryl Churchill
#63. Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement. In South Africa we have a common phrase - it's like a chant in the street and at rallies: "Wathint' abafazi, wathint' imbokodo." Which means, "You strike a woman, you strike a rock."
Trevor Noah
#64. I am hyper vigilant and would be dangerous if threatened ... If someone broke into my house or attacked me in the street, it's THEM I would fear for ... But as Yo La Tengo recently put it so succinctly: I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass.
Haven Kimmel
#65. Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.
Augusten Burroughs
#66. We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like you're dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.
Don Meyer
#67. It's fundamental to succeed in coming into contact with your subject. Whether it's a big Hollywood star or a passer-by in the street, it makes no difference.
Douglas Kirkland
#68. Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Hannah Arendt
#69. A man in the house is worth two in the street.
Mae West
#70. If I walk in the street in Korea, I am recognized.
Kim Yuna
#71. For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
Barry McGee
#72. I disconnected myself to shield myself from people who would sway to my songs in the club and call me 'nigger' in the street. They were too busy seeing their own preconceived image of a Negro woman. the image that I chose to give them was of a woman who they could not reach and therefore can't hurt.
Lena Horne
#73. Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you.
Joe Frazier
#74. In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
Mason Cooley
#75. And it made his heart shake to hear these things in the street or bus or dime store, the uninventable poetry, inside the pain, of what people say.
Don DeLillo
#76. I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it.
Milton Jones
#77. Eierkopf. Egghead. Because the big double-domed empty heads break so easily ... in the street brawls.
Philip K. Dick
#78. Love can be obtained by begging, buying, receiving it as a gift, finding it in the street, but it cannot be stolen.
Hermann Hesse
#79. I do get clocked in the street. People say, 'You're an actress, aren't you?' But they don't know my name. Nine times out of 10, they don't know what I've been in.
Lesley Manville
#80. The important thing is not to be too comfortable when you're writing. Noise in the street? That's good. The computer goes down? That's good. All these things are good. It has to be a little bit of a struggle.
E.L. Doctorow
#81. There's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they see it, than that of the man in the street.
Martin Amis
#82. I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.
Charlie Adam
#83. Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.
Flea
#84. Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#85. But the fact remains that according to the testimony of one of his own Nazi followers in the column, the physician Dr. Walther Schulz, which was supported by several other witnesses, Hitler "was the first to get up and turn back," leaving his dead and wounded comrades lying in the street. He
William L. Shirer
#86. On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer's night and there was a blackout. On every side you heard people crying: 'Look at the moon!' The moon had been there every minute of their lives and they'd never seen it.
Laurens Van Der Post
#87. If you want more joy in your daily life, smile at the people you meet in the street, the woman sitting beside you on the bus or standing next to you in the queue at the airport, the waiter who brings your food, your colleagues or your employer. There's a great chance they'll smile back.
Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir
#88. The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.
Jesse Eisenberg
#89. Shame, isn't it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are 'spit and polished,' and not when they're showing us the wounds they suffered on our behalf.
Jacqueline Winspear
#90. I'd go and get really drunk somewhere ... in the street. Pass out somewhere and sleep in the gutter.
Robert Pattinson
#91. As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street.
Christopher Hitchens
#92. Young Noah: [humming] Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
Young Allie: [laughing] You're a terrible singer.
Young Noah: I know.
Young Allie: [laying her head on his shoulder] But I like this song.
[they continue dancing in the street to I'll Be Seeing You]
Nicholas Sparks
#93. The Lazio fans always stop [at the bakery] on their way home from the stadium to stand in the street for hours, leaning up against their motorcycles, talking about the game, looking macho as anything, and eating cream puffs.
I love Italy.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#94. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. --The Price of the Ticket, "No Name in the Street" (1972; repr. 1985) The
James Baldwin
#95. I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.
David Walliams
#96. I imagine the world from my window ... Traveling, I think it's a nightmare today. The airports and things the people in the street with the selfies ... I like to stay at home and read.
Karl Lagerfeld
#97. I remember another aphorism of my father's, one that he used to say whenever we passed someone pissing openly in the street: add color to life when you can.
Dinaw Mengestu
#98. I prefer walking in the street and thinking about God to staying in the mosque and thinking about my shoes.
Ali Shariati
#99. Youths are passed through schools that don't teach, then forced to search for jobs that don't exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.
Huey Newton
#100. Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.
Shari Arison
