Top 19 Street Wise Sayings
#1. Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
Rachel Cohn
#2. My view on politics is much more grassroots oriented; it's not old boy network oriented, so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise, if you will. That's rubbed some feathers the wrong way.
Michael Steele
#3. I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
Sophia Loren
#4. Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?
Bonnie Tyler
#7. I'd been running for years: there was nothing scarier, to me, than to just be still with someone. And yet, there on that dark road, going home, I was.
Sarah Dessen
#8. No professional Wall Street tipster or plausible promoter can turn a sane person into a stock gambler as easily as his next-door neighbor bragging about his winnings. If all men profited by experience, the world would be peopled exclusively by the wise....
Kenneth L. Fisher
#9. Street children are lovely blossoms just dropped from the tree after a heavy storm. Now they need to be put together with a needle and threads of security and shelter to live into a beautiful circle of life's garland
Munia Khan
#10. I banned bottled water from my house - we have a water-filter system so you can drink from the tap. We always drink out of glass, and recycling is a huge deal, which everybody can partake in.
Eva Longoria
#11. An empty street sucks your fullness; a full street fills your emptiness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season.
Louisa May Alcott
#15. Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.
C.P. Cavafy
#16. I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less strangers. That's not shy, that's wise. But I found that that when you had a journalist's notebook in your hand it wasn't really you, you see.
Geraldine Brooks
#17. I decided that travel was flight and pursuit in equal parts,
Paul Theroux
#18. I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.
Martha Smith
#19. If you are wise, Matson said to himself grimly, you never take one-way trips. Anywhere. Even to Boise, Idaho ... even across the street. Be certain, when you start, that you can scramble back.
Philip K. Dick
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