Wet Streets Quotes

#1. With two hours until her mother picked her up, Janey was alone, woozy and heart-swollen in the downtown, wandering wet streets that gleamed as you would have them gleam in the sweet summer film of your life.

Wells Tower

#2. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

Michael Crichton

#3. I had been here during heavy rain, the kind of rain that becomes pleasurable to watch because it makes of the house a haven. The rooms in which one moves become a world apart from the wet streets, the sodden garden.

Deirdre Madden

#4. How far we've come, Jeff," Brian whispered to the cold, wet streets. "How far the geeky boys have come.

Rafael Yglesias

#5. After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.

Denis Johnson

#6. Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.

Ice-T

#7. You shudder beneath the orange glow, the wet reptile streets, while heading back to the muted torture of your dirty room, where some cruel memory sours the walls, viciously, like wisps of a flaming hell.

Brian Alan Ellis

#8. Glittering news chips in men's sideburns and women with braided microfilament glo-strands stepping around me, laughing with silver lipsticks. Kaleidoscope streets: lights and traffic and dust and coal diesel exhaust. Muddy and wet.

Jason Heller

#9. For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

Thomas More

#10. Remember, the best cure for worry is to do something positive. That's because fear is endless and formless, whereas even the worst outcome has an ending.

Adeline Yen Mah

#11. The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#12. We speed through the streets past modern buildings and ancient architecture. Gazing through the taxi window Rome becomes a wet painting someone has wiped a hand across.

Kevin James Moore

#13. The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.

Shana Alexander

#14. The power of desire is a divine.
Desire to live by faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. When I read [the script] and saw that it was my fanboy wet dream of an Avengers script and that [Agent] Coulson was a big part of it, that was the great day for me. I just drove around the streets with the script in the other seat, giggling.

Joss Whedon

#16. All you violated ones with gentle hearts;
You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak

Margaret Walker

#17. The last good time always comes

Stephen King

#18. The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour.

Charles Dickens