Wise Street Quotes

#1. I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

Sophia Loren

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. 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

#8. Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.

Rachel Cohn

#9. An empty street sucks your fullness; a full street fills your emptiness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. A silent street always welcome a good music!

Mehmet Murat Ildan