Passerby's Quotes

#1. When passerby's ignore homeless people, they don't know if that was a man or woman in uniform previously. They should not be invisible. They cannot be ignored.

Max Martini

#2. And despite the eyeliner, and the lipstick that defines her lips, she has a face now that a passerby's gaze will engage and then bounce from, as it would a street sign or a mailbox number. ...this is what aging is...

Khaled Hosseini

#3. I resemble that worm which crawls through dust,
Lives in the dust, eats dust
Until a passerby's foot crushes it.

Philip K. Dick

#4. One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.

Andy Rooney

#5. She preferred the idea of me more than the real me, I think." "Sexy

Giselle Fox

#6. With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

Joe Orton

#7. But now we are two here. And soon there will be more. After so much contracting, somehow, inexplicably, my family is growing again.

Gayle Forman

#8. Time oozed away, flowing like lava erupting lazily from a vent, slowly and impossible to stop, covering everything into oblivion under its dark layer of things that were and will never be again.

Massimo Marino

#9. Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.

Mason Cooley

#10. The waterfall winks at every passerby.

Marty Rubin

#11. Three weeks feels like three years when you spend all your time missing someone.

Katie Kacvinsky

#12. I'm looking for you
in the bare corridor
where my shadow is the only passerby
harmonizing an unsettling whisper:
echoed through my chiming thoughts
From the poem 'Looking For You

Munia Khan

#13. Having realized that her affection for Sinclair went far beyond friendship, there was only one thing for her to do. She took off her hat and banged her head against the nearest lamppost.
Also realizing she was drawing attention from passerby, she put her hat back on and resumed walking.

Shirley Karr

#14. Life is perhaps lighting up a cigarette
in the narcotic repose between two love-makings
or the absent gaze of a passerby
who takes off his hat to another passerby
with a meaningless smile and a good morning

Forough Farrokhzad

#15. My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.

Prefuse 73

#16. If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.

Don King

#17. Rich people do not work for money, they are doing what they like to do

Sunday Adelaja

#18. Abraham Lincoln once walked down the street with his two sons, both of whom were crying. "What's the matter with you boys?" asked a passerby. "Exactly what is wrong with the whole world," said Lincoln. "I have three walnuts, and each boy wants two."

George Sweeting

#19. Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text.

Tom Stoppard

#20. Now I was just a transient in the valley, a one-eyed passerby too fat for his years, and life there had the power to summon up neither the memory nor the illusion of any other, truer self. As a passerby I had a right to insist on my identity.

Kenzaburo Oe

#21. The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

#22. Ay, Mijita. Haven't you learned by now? Love will always guide you home.

L.G. Castillo

#23. Like a blood-red sky that warns the passerby, "There is a fire over there," certain blazing looks often reveal passions that they serve merely to reflect. They are flames in the mirror.

Marcel Proust

#24. At first sin was as fragile as a spiders thread, and finally as stout as a ship's hawser; sin arrived as a passerby, next lingered for a moment, then came as a visitor, and finally became master of the house.

Israel Shenker

#25. If I'm not in love with the script, there's nothing. It doesn't matter what you give me. It has to start with the script.

Doug Liman

#26. Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.

Peter Drucker

#27. The guards eat out in the open, I said. They don't swallow their deaths because the passerby know the sound of the snapping twigs and the sour belch of poverty.

Herta Muller

#28. Clouds, this evening
The same as always, like thirst,
The same red dress, unfastened.
Imagine, passerby,
Our new beginnings, our eagerness, our trust.

Yves Bonnefoy

#29. What if the key to unlocking your true authentic power, to opening up your heart deeply to love, to finding the confidence to go after everything you want in your life lies hidden in your shadow?

Debbie Ford

#30. I had a game where I liked to imagine what sort of pyjamas each passerby might wear. This came from a belief that the more I know about the inner lives of others, the more I might understand the world.

Stephanie LaCava

#31. Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, "Don't you worry about being called names?" retorted, "Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?

Alain De Botton

#32. [picket sign] COGITO ERGO NOTHING! ... [casual passerby:] "Cogito ergo your ass" ...

Donald Barthelme

#33. In every passerby, everywhere - Christ ... He is in everyone - there can be no outcasts.

Caryll Houselander

#34. If you wanted to reassemble Elijah's afternoon, you could probably do it by stringing together all the photographs and all of the frames of videotape that he walks into. Always a passerby, he is immortalized and unknown.

David Levithan

#35. I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

Bernard Berenson

#36. She tried to make her eyes seem tender; she did not know why, for no reason, for pleasure, the pleasure of charity, of a little vanity, and also gratuity, the pleasure of carving your name into a tree trunk for a passerby whom you will never see, the pleasure of throwing a bottle into the ocean.

Marcel Proust

#37. A great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

Agatha Christie

#38. I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#39. The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all.

Jeanne Birdsall

#40. No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Oscar Wilde