Quotes About Street Performers

#1. I wandered the sidewalk watching all the street performers doing their juggling acts, playing their musical instruments, busting their asses to avoid work. I liked that. But I wanted to tell them there were easier ways to avoid work, like cab driving.

Gary Reilly

#2. Before I saw your talk, I always thought of street performers as beggars.

Amanda Palmer

#3. Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

Cuba Gooding Jr.

#4. She bought raffle tickets for charity, gave money to street performers, and was always sponsoring annoying friends who were running yet another marathon for some worthy cause (even though the true cause was their own fitness).

Liane Moriarty

#5. Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!

Camryn Manheim

#6. He never wanted to see that look of disppointment in her eyes again, yet he couldn't allow himself to be crushed under his own yearning.

Frank Lee

#7. Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.

Irving Stone

#8. I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

John Shelby Spong

#9. People change after a while, and they're no longer who you once knew

Newt Scamander

#10. Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#11. When it's just you and me, there will be fire in the air. Forget the moon. The ocean will pull to our magnetism. We'll control the tides with our love.

Addison Moore

#12. It was at a performance art space that's no longer around, Gusto House ... All of these great performers from all over the country lived on the Lower East Side, and they would take somebody's living room that opened right onto the street, open the door and charge tickets and put up chairs.

John Leguizamo

#13. If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.

Thomas Rowe Price Jr.

#14. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

Okakura Kakuzo

#15. One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to fill up your head with it, to absorb it, to make poetry an essential part of how you view the world.

Valerie Worth

#16. Stella says older men make better lovers; with boys our age, she says, the ice cream melts once the cone's in your hand.

David Mitchell

#17. A true messenger lives a burdened life. If he is the Lord's vessel, he carries in his heart a burden for souls none can share but those who know it firsthand.

Billy Graham

#18. Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.

Andy Kaufman

#19. Still clutching each other by the arm, they turned to watch the last stones plummet over the edge.
"I don't know how many times a day I can stand to watch you almost die," Seregil gasped.
"Twice is my limit," croaked Alec, sinking to his knees.

Lynn Flewelling

#20. You have a person around for years, maybe you get fond of them even if they aren't really anything to you, and that struck me as huge and important in some way I couldn't get a good hold on.

Joshilyn Jackson

#21. My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

E.L. Doctorow

#22. Come to think of it, Your Majesty, I believe I must still be growing. Either that, or you are shrinking.

C.L. Wilson