Street Literature Quotes

#1. To me, it didn't matter where I played, I just wanted to play well.

Ronnie Lott

#2. What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

Henry Miller

#3. As they walked, it seemed almost every building had some similar contrivance as decoration, adorning the street in a cacophony of clangs, bangs and whirs. The street's surroundings danced with steam and smoke, the scent of oil and grease its perfume.

A.F. Stewart

#4. No doubts our generation is producing another form of grub street literature.. Welcome to the world of hack writers..

Himmilicious

#5. A camel in distress isn't a shy creature. It doesn't hang around in bars, nursing a solitary drink. It doesn't phone up old friends and sob at them. It doesn't mope, or write long soulful poems about Life and how dreadful it is when seen from a bedsitter. It doesn't know what angst is.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.

Mo Yan

#7. No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

Earl Butz

#8. I'm the muhfucka that did this to you! If y'all don't know me, you better get to know me, or fuck around and wind up wit' a hole in your forehead.

Brooklyn June

#9. Anyone can cut an apple open and count the number of seeds. But, who can look at a single seed and count the trees and apples?

Dottie Walters

#10. There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male ... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

Walter Dean Myers

#11. Because an idea lives on after the death of the person.

Patrick Ness

#12. I'm naming my son just what he is. I'm a whore and he is my son. If he grows up ashamed of me, the hell with him. That's what I'm wantin' to name him, and that's what it's goin' to be. Whoreson!

Donald Goines

#13. Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.

Stephen Sondheim

#14. When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.

Dorothy Day

#15. Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.

Karen Kain

#16. Blake was not a politician, but there is more understanding of the nature of capitalist society in a poem like "I wander through each charter'd street" than in three-quarters of Socialist literature.

George Orwell

#17. Church socials, beauty shops and barbershops. If two guys were standing on a corner, I would cross the street to hand them campaign literature. And everywhere I went, I'd get some version of the same two questions. "Where'd you get that funny name?" And then: "You seem

Barack Obama

#18. If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

Ludwig Von Mises

#19. Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.

Tamora Pierce

#20. There's a German term- heimweh, homesickness. It's a powerful sensation, like a narcotic. A yearning from home, but for something more- a past self, perhaps. A lost self. When I first saw you on the street, Katya, I felt such a sensation ... I have no idea why

Joyce Carol Oates

#21. It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place.

Jeff Miller

#22. On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.

Patrick Modiano

#23. Living is deeper than just life

Tru Lyfe

#24. Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off from the rest of life. No - I want to always have a foot in the street, to be inmersed in the activities of my contemporaries, in the times, in the place where I live.

Mario Vargas-Llosa