Streetcar Quotes

#1. I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see this movie.' It was 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' and it was on TV, and it was a big deal. And I saw Marlon Brando, and I was like, 'Oh, my God.' That's where it started.

Mark Ruffalo

#2. My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.

Dana Spiotta

#3. I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#4. She wasn't the type to stab you in the back. She stabbed you right there in the front so you could watch all the blood gushing out.

Jill Mansell

#5. Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

George Sand

#6. Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#7. Teacher and the guard. He nodded.

Nora Roberts

#8. If you run unit tests and a continuous integration system on your code's mainline, then you must also arrange to run these on the release branch, for as long as the branch is alive.

Anonymous

#9. I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.

Michael Moore

#10. I rode a streetcar to the edge of the city limits, then I started to walk, swinging the old thumb whenever I saw a car coming.

Jim Thompson

#11. I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and Isabella in 'Measure for Measure.'

Robin McLeavy

#12. A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar now stood under the open sky in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath these clouds, in a field of force of destructive torrents and explosions, was the tiny, fragile human body.

Walter Benjamin

#13. And in the spring, it's touching to notice them making their first discovery of love! As if nobody had ever known it before!

Tennessee Williams

#14. I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13, and I watched it, thinking, 'Wow. That is pretty cool. I'd like to do something like that.'

Aneurin Barnard

#15. I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.

Cate Blanchett

#16. I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'

Mike Nichols

#17. Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.

Vivien Leigh

#18. I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down ... The other accident is Diego.

Frida Kahlo

#19. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bread by cities ... it is enough that i am surrounded by beauty.

Everett Ruess

#20. Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an occasional mistake acceptable. Jumping to conclusions is risky when the situation is unfamiliar, the stakes are high and there is no time to collect more information.

Daniel Kahneman

#21. I'm very bullish on the streetcar.

Anthony Foxx

#22. The line, Lasko. Do you know anyone in San Francisco? Are you just gonna get off the train and take a streetcar to the swimming pool?" "I might. I could." "You have to have a plan, Lasko." "No, I don't. Not after this. I don't have to have a plan in the world.

Armistead Maupin

#23. And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle ...

Tennessee Williams

#24. Sweetheart," he chided, making my heart skid. "You'll never need me more than I need you.

Shelly Crane

#25. A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.

Harry Houdini

#26. You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor's suit, because I'd be riding the streetcar to school everyday - minding my own business, humming out a 'Frere Jacques' - and I realized that in any other town, this might be considered cute. But you know what it is in San Francisco? Sexy.

Al Madrigal

#27. His shadow stretched out across the asphalt, a man on his way to make good an old wrong, his shadow, the dark doppelganger with stilts for legs, sliced in two by the streetcar tracks.

Hansjorg Schertenleib

#28. They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

#29. I have a GoPro in the trunk of my streetcar.

Nick Woodman

#30. We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

Bob Dole

#31. Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

Vivien Leigh

#32. It was the seventh or eighth floor, she couldn't remember which. A streetcar crawled past the front of the hotel, and people on the sidewalk moved in every direction, with legs on either side of them, and it crossed her mind to jump.

Patricia Highsmith

#33. Grief made people guilty. Guilty for being five minutes late, for taking the wrong streetcar, for ignoring a couph or sleeping too soundly. Guilt and grief went hand in hand.

Ann Hood

#34. By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

Maureen Forrester

#35. It never happened
but it seemed like
there were times when rot
stopped
waited like a streetcar
at a signal.

Charles Bukowski

#36. He deftly dealt his swiftest blow
I fell further than, I was meant to go.

Lang Leav

#37. I would have been glad to agree to let them all proceed henceforth in complete ignorance of psychology, if they would forget my opinion of chocolate sodas or the story of the amusing episode on a Spanish streetcar.

B.F. Skinner

#38. There was a warm breeze blowing in the car as they passed the mansions in the Garden District and they could smell the sweet aroma of the night-blooming jasmine. Soft light fell on the neutral ground along the streetcar tracks.

Hunter Murphy

#39. They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!

Tennessee Williams

#40. I think with President Obama there's going to be a discussion, because he himself is multiracial, because we have for the first time a non-white president. There's going to be talk about what does this mean? What is it? Are we in a new era?

Michael Emerson

#41. Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.

Ellery Sedgwick

#42. The more I focus on the positive, the more positive my life becomes.

Julie-Anne

#43. When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

Charlie Chaplin