Quotes About Crowded Streets

#1. Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.

Terry Pratchett

#2. The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#3. Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share.

Dalton Trumbo

#4. I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.

Ella R. Bloor

#5. Silence is the beauty of the empty streets; laughter is the beauty of the crowded streets! There is beauty both in emptiness and in fullness; there is beauty both in absence and in presence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. In a big city you become a ghost; you walk on the crowded streets and realise that you are a kind of transparent entity; an indistinct being, a thing which is not something!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. As he walked along the crowded streets, he almost wished for the old days, and carelessly wondered how many men he had killed here.

Jose Antonio Villareal

#8. Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.

Marc Maron

#9. Merchant's Ware, the city most people thought of as the real city. Normally its narrow streets were crowded with stalls, and people from all over the Carpet. They'd each be trying to cheat one another in that open-and-aboveboard way known as doing business.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.

Jack Osbourne

#11. No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God.

John Robert Seeley

#12. Those of us who are locked into ineffective expressions of anger suffer as deeply as those of us who dare not get angry at all.

Harriet Lerner

#13. How different everything is when you are with the right people!

Kate Greenaway

#14. Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

Elizabeth Bowen

#15. Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they going? What were they looking for? I wanted to hear their heartbeats, and I wanted them to hear mine.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#16. My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.

Jacob Epstein

#17. You can't help him, Eva.' Louise's voice is flat and serious. 'You will only lose yourself trying, and no one will be able to find you.' (ANXIOUS HEARTS)

Tucker Shaw

#18. Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

Kirk Douglas

#19. If God is playing hide and seek with us, I must confess that I am quite bored with this childish game!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. Which was complimentary but unhelpful, because the librarians were tough.

Robertson Davies

#21. I realize that Camilla is out very own statistical anomaly, an outlier that no one seems to know where to place.

Melissa Keil

#22. We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

Anais Nin

#23. Two meh minutes of my life I'll never see again." Fallon snorted. "His basement couch had more of a thrill than I did.

Naima Simone

#24. While running simple errands I often became hopelessly confused in the maze of crowded, filthy streets that began twenty paces beyond the north gate of the bridge, and as I limped back to my shelves of books I would feel as if I were returning from exile.

Ross King

#25. The streets of Aqaba are shell spirals and, on summer nights, crowded and complicated as a woman's heart.

Diana Abu-Jaber

#26. It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

Twyla Tharp