Top 1200 Mean Streets Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Those small brown men who sell their sisters on the streets of Cairo were once the mighty Egyptians.

Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

Growing up playing on the streets, you made your name by talking mess and getting into people's heads.

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

Walking the streets of San Francisco can be a frightening, demoralizing, even an unhealthy experience for residents and tourists alike.

Threats to the rule of law come not only from rioters and looters in the streets, but also from activist judges on the bench.

If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I am probably not a believer. But if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that I do believe in.

"Simple" is a tricky word, it can mean a lot of things. To us, it just means clear. That doesn't always mean total reduction, or minimalism - sometimes, to make things clearer, you have to add a step.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

I had the blessing of opportunity. You need the folks in the boardroom who have consciences and the people in the streets who can picket at the right time.

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.

China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They're very self-contained.

The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.

I want my gay life to not wind up on the streets-on Second Avenue. But at the same time, I don't care if it does.

I know as far as things like the Thunderbirds, there's a New Zealand connection. X-Files, my connection there... I mean, it could be zeitgeist. I mean, I'm into the paranormal. I have a podcast about cryptozoology. So it's out there that I'm into weird stuff.

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

I was always playing on the streets with my friends until I was 15 or 16 and I wanted to do things with my skills that were exciting.

My children are vampires. I don't mean that they are going to dress as vampires for Halloween. I mean that, like vampires, they cannot be captured on film.

Once on the streets of New York a woman called the police because her child spoke to me.

Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

Girl, I've seen people shot. I've smelled, like, the smell of brains. When I tell you I come from the streets, I'm not kidding.

Our streets should be safe at all times. You shouldn't have to worry about things like knife or other crime.

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

At least in Phoenix, you can get off the main highways and take side streets to where you want to go. In L.A., you can't. You're stuck.

At the end of the day, we're professional prizefighters - stop acting like street thugs. We're not going to fight in the streets.

The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything ... that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

Our streets are very important for social cohesion, for feelings of safety, and we just surrendered all this to the car. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

Delivering a successful presentation could mean landing a major new contract, better prices for your services, or getting the funding you need. Failure can mean lost customers and a business that never gets off the ground.

[Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

I'm actually one of the sharper tools in the box that haven't been in the streets like that, but I have family members, close loved ones, that that's all they know.

Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that, I don't just mean five or six centuries ago.

Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.

I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.

[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time.

Have you ever walked down the streets of New York and been given the right of way? It's an amazing feeling.

I lived in the streets for three years when I was a kid, and every day, I didn't know where my next meal would come from.

Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.

There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance.

I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it's starting to reverse a little bit.

There are men who do exist who have no desire for women. That doesn't necessarily mean they have an interest in men, but scholars often interpret it to mean those men who don't have sexual knowledge.

When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it.

Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage

When I'm out there on the streets, I enjoy meeting people and listening to their complaints and critiques. It's something that I take great pleasure in.

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards.