Quotes About Narrow Streets

#1. Be comfortable in the narrow streets because they will take you to the wider streets!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. People were thicker than bees, in those narrow streets, and the men were dressed in all the outrageous, outlandish, idolatrous, extravagant, thunder-and-lightning costumes that ever a tailor with the delirium tremens and seven devils could conceive of. There

Mark Twain

#3. Like most markets, Da Jing is most alive just after dawn, when the elementary-school children in their uniforms and bright red kerchiefs set off through narrow streets, marking the start of another frenzied day of commerce.

Evan Osnos

#4. 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

#5. I have gone at dusk through narrow streets and watched the smoke that rises from the pipes of lonely men leaning out of windows

T. S. Eliot

#6. Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.

Emilio Estevez

#7. The modern city consists of ... dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise ...

Alexis Carrel

#8. How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself?

Rufi Thorpe

#9. It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

Trudi Canavan

#10. Elske screamed, too. But when Elske screamed, it was the war cry of the Volkaric that came out of her mouth, a howling like the voice of a wolf. The cry wound around the narrow streets as if they were in the wild and merciless northlands.

Cynthia Voigt

#11. Narrow streets are beautiful because you are closer to the realities!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Most visitors to Amsterdam will wander into the red-light district out of sheer curiosity. The narrow streets are mostly safe day and night - just don't try to take pictures of the women working in the windows.

David Hewson

#13. Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Every once in a while, large cities have narrow streets, silent passageways that allow your footsteps to echo in the stillness of the night, and it seems like everything is going back to the way it was, when there were only a few of us and we all knew each other and greeted each other on the street.

Jaume Cabre

#15. They clomp together through the narrow streets, Marie-Laure's hand on the back of Madame's apron, following the odors of her stews and cakes; in such moments Madame seems like a great moving wall of rosebushes, thorny and fragrant and crackling with bees. Still-warm

Anthony Doerr

#16. A narrow winding street, full of offence and stench, with other narrow winding streets diverging, all peopled by rags and nightcaps, and all smelling of rags and nightcaps, and all visible things with a brooding look upon them that looked ill.

Charles Dickens

#17. This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued smoke of the forges, which are always at work: Here they make all sorts of cutlery-ware, but especially that of edged-tools, knives, razors, axes, &. and nails

Daniel Defoe

#18. I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

Tao Lin

#19. People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.

Elizabeth Chandler

#20. Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow tunnel of the present into the future. But space is broad, teeming with possibilities, positions, intersections, passages, detours, U-turns, dead-ends, one-way streets. Too many possibilities, indeed.

Susan Sontag

#21. In narrow and gloomy streets, keep your spirit high!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. If you're going to do something, do something that matters. Don't waste your time doing stupid things with even bigger losers going nowhere.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#23. As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm.

Virginia Woolf

#24. You've got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see. And if you try a little kindness, Then you'll overlook the blindness Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets.

Glen Campbell

#25. And before long , the msuic , the views rushing past the window , my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into one , and it seemed to me that while we would never find answers to these fundamental questions , it was good for us to ask them anyway .
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Orhan Pamuk

#26. They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in big feathery flakes, the kind of winter where you want to be walking down a city street with your arm around a girl like on the old record cover

Donna Tartt

#27. In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

Stephen Gardiner

#28. The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

Aasif Mandvi

#29. In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

Renata Adler

#30. I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.

Billie Holiday