Quotes About Crossing The Street

#1. More data - such as paying attention to the eye colors of the people around when crossing the street - can make you miss the big truck.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.

Moms Mabley

#3. A Jew, crossing the street, bumped into an anti-Semite. "Swine!" bellowed the paskudnyak. "Goldberg," said the Jew, bowing.

Leo Rosten

#4. Soon, I'm going to need help crossing the street.

Robert Plant

#5. I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.

Robert McCloskey

#6. I know that experts say you're more likely to get hurt crossing the street than you are flying, but that doesn't make me any less frightened of flying. If anything, it makes me more afraid of crossing the street.

Ellen DeGeneres

#7. Directly in front of me, crossing the street, I saw a woman laughing and walking arm in arm with two men. When she came to the curb, she lifted her skirt with both hands and vulgarly displayed a pair of indigo stockings.

Nancy B. Brewer

#8. But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.

Seth Godin

#9. I can do this, he was thinking. All I have to do is just be as normal as everyone else. All I have to do is just not blow apart like a two-dollar clock. Just pick words and put one of them after the other like a baby learning to walk, like a drunk carefully crossing the street.

William Gay

#10. I got my heel stuck in a drain as I was crossing the street and cars were coming. It was really scary. A girl in heels in New York is a hard combination.

Sasha Pieterse

#11. Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people crossing the street. You can't even find your actors.

Victor Levin

#12. Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.

Graham Kendall

#13. I see other people crossing the street at the curb and I don't know how they can do it.

Steve Martin

#14. Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me ... I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.

Gabrielle Zevin

#15. America was and is the immigrant's dream.

Don DeLillo

#16. A man is hit by a car while crossing a Beverly Hills street. A woman rushes to him and cradles his head in her lap, asking, Are you comfortable? The man answers, I make a nice living.

Milton Berle

#17. Penology ... has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime ... a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety.

Paul Goodman

#18. The effect your readers want is for what they read to trigger in them the sights and sounds and smells of what's happening in the story. They don't want approximations, they don't want a report, they want to experience the story's reality.

Ray Rhamey

#19. Crossing a single street transformed the way people talked, determined the size and condition of the homes, the dimension and character of the dreams.

Colson Whitehead

#20. Lady Glossip: Mr. Wooster, how would you support a wife? Bertie Wooster: Well, I suppose it depends on who's wife it was, a little gentle pressure beneath the elbow while crossing a busy street usually fits the bill.

P.G. Wodehouse

#21. There is a term for people caught on a street crossing after the light has changed: "pedestrian-traffic residue".

Mavis Gallant

#22. I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart.

Crystal Bowersox

#23. I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.

Eric Roberts

#24. A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.

Doug Linder

#25. The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.

George Crabbe

#26. Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.

Thomas Carlyle