Top 1200 Real Street Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

Walking down the street, it's a humbling feeling. Everyone stopping you for photos and autographs, it's real humbling.

If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.

The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.

From food trucks to hot dog stands to county fair favorites, 'street food' has enjoyed a rich and storied history in American cuisine. However, street food has been around for thousands of years. In fact, street food is believed to have originated as far back as Ancient Rome.

Most stocks bought and sold on Wall Street are held in what's called 'street name.'

The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork.

We're training Google Street View to recognize street numbers.

Wall Street is in trouble because Main Street is broke.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

I get more respect from rap artists than I do from my own industry. I don't always write the kind of music that country executives want. Rappers are like that too .. my words come from the street, and their words come from the street. That slicked-up pop stuff doesn't come from the street, it's all pre-fab.

Main Street versus Wall Street was the 2008 economic mantra of Democrat Barack Obama.

Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.

Real democracy is food on the table, the ability to plan your life, the ability to walk on the street without getting mugged.

People, when they say 'streetwear,' they miss the central component, which is that it's real people; it's clothes that are worn on the street.

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?

I'm not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street.

Wu-Block is more street. It's just street, that's all.

You know who's also joining the Wall Street protesters? Kanye West. That's a real good idea -- a guy with diamonds in his teeth protesting greed.

Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.

If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph

So when I was a kid in Guyana, I would run barefoot in the street and bathe in the rain. That was a real thing. Picture that, showers falling from the sky in the middle of the Caribbean.

It's very difficult to do street casting with girls, because a beautiful girl in real life won't necessarily have the silhouette or the presence needed for a show.

I don't know why, but if I was walking down the street, the same people who called me freak would probably ask for a picture. It's a real strange thing.

I realize I have a lot of amazing opportunities, but I don't know how you can play a human being going through real human experiences without being able to walk down the street. If you can't live a real life, how do you play a real person? It always confuses me when actors work back-to-back-to-back with no break. If you live your life on a film set, how the hell can you relate to real people? You don't know what its like to not have people fussing over you all day, and that's not life - that's silly movies. I will always want to take breaks and I wouldn't be OK with losing that.

Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.'

I'm in a funny position: I've been in one band in my life and that was with my brother. As incredible as that has been, I feel like I'm missing out a little bit on being in a real rock band - or how I imagine being in a real rock band to be. It's like being in a street gang: you all wear the same leather jacket or whatever.

Until black culture as a whole is effectively disentangled from the python-grip of hip-hop, and by extension the street, we are not going to see any real progress.

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

In New York, you can bump into someone on the street and go to a thing, go get coffee real quick.

We don't have spittoons on street corners any more. It's no longer acceptable to spit on the street.

I am not too interested in leaving the street people and joining the Establishment. I prefer street folks.

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

If you're a real hip-hop fan and a real street music fan, and you just love good music, you're gonna play it from top to bottom, and you're gonna get the concept, you're gonna get the story of my life, you're gonna be entertained, you're gonna dance you're gonna feel emotion, you're gonna get the truth, whether you like it or hate it.

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting.

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

When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.

I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.

People will stop me on the street, and they know - Jaguars. It's a certain street recognition we didn't have years ago.

There is no need for the street lights in the Street of Love; all is already bright in there!

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.

In my dream I hadn't arrived at this street yet; this was just downloaded to me as this woman mentioned only the street name. It reminded me of hearing the words "Disneyland" and how we are instantly filled with joy and recognize it as a happy place full of fun. The words "Media Spring Street" created a movement of its own. When people just simply heard "Media Spring Street" it was like catching a wave of God and you wanted to get there as fast as you could!

If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.

It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble.

I want to have a street named 'Swae Lee.' It doesn't need to be a busy street.

I wasn't just playing football on the street. I grew up on the street.

A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money!

Historically, there has been a gap between single-purpose racecars and street-legal models - commonly called supercars - that emulate the real racers on the road.

Although we work through financial markets, our goal is to help Main Street, not Wall Street.

I love street, adore street. Life is about mixing things and to be divine in the streets. Voila!

I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.

Im not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street.

Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all, it keeps them off the street.

If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.

Street performing can be a great teaching ground and a barometer for what you're doing. It's rough and unforgiving at times, but it can be wild and fun and a real open canvas for your creativity.

The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.

Most of these charges that people pay are economically unnecessary. There's no real cost behind them. There's no real value behind them. So, they're what the classical economist called empty pricing. Prices with no real cost value. What they called rent and fictitious capital. Capital claims on junk mortgage borrowers. The pretense is that all these debts can be paid but it's all fictitious, because everybody knows - at least on Wall Street everybody knows - that many debts can't be paid.

When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up a few pieces of street art and photograph them really well, even if their locations weren't actually that high-profile or dangerous, with the level of exposure they get from the Internet, with a large audience, they can maintain that rebel cache by having it be theoretically documented street art.