Top 1200 Street Corner Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels in the architecture spinning in infinity and he says, "Amen" and "Hallelujah!

Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand, A hand that can be clasp'd no more - Behold me, for I cannot sleep, And like a guilty thing I creep At earliest morning to the door. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day.

I'm an optimist; I always believe that there must be something round the corner.

Certainly my inner world will never be a peaceful place of bloom; it will have some peace, and occasional riots of bloom, but always a little fight going on too. There is no way I can be peacefully happy in this society and in this skin. I am committed to Uneasy Street. I like it; it is my idea that this street leads to the future, and that I am being true to a way of life which is not here yet, but is more real than what is here.

I'll never get stuck in the corner doing just one thing.

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of wheels.

Anything called the Teflon Corner is not sweet for free-soloing.

There's nothing wrong with you..not even the darkest corner of that beautiful soul. ~ Hunter

One day we will all cherish the memory of having blacksmiths on every corner.

I was in 'Harry Potter,' and nobody on the street recognizes me from that. Nobody on the street has ever stopped me from 'Harry Potter!'

I have gotten tubes of Chapstick from every damn corner of the country.

I connect to SpongeBob in a way; like, that's the homie. He can chill on the corner with me.

Paint yourself into a corner so that you don't have any other option but to continue forward.

That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.

The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There's a doublecross on every corner.

When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

I've learnt that you never know what is around the corner, so it's best to enjoy the ride.

The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.

Bonuses balance my budget in New York City. The bigger the bonuses on Wall Street, the more money I had to spend on poor people. The New York City budget is determined greatly by the bonuses given on Wall Street.

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know what's around the corner.

Something is sticking out its tongue at me from the corner of my mirror.

Maybe I can't write without painting myself into a corner first.

If we go to a party, I'll just be chilling in the corner, absorbing everything.

Once I start to do a film, it has inferences. If a guy walks down a street and kicks a dog, you're saying something about that guy. A guy walks down the street and somebody's about to be run over and he shoves him out of his way and gets hit by the car himself, you're saying that guy's a hero. You can't avoid making certain statements.

It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.

We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform.

As a kid, I always thought the TV was a magic box in the corner of the room.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

Creating a portrait of a female point of view in an environment that we've pretty much exclusively understood through a male perspective - "Wall Street," "Wolf of Wall Street," "Arbitrage" - etc. was beyond exciting for me. It felt downright necessary. And I felt really inspired by Alysia Reiner and Sarah Megan Thomas' agenda in telling these types of unique, feminist stories. [Both of them produced and acted in "Equity."]

I mean, I don't think a lot of people know this, but I played corner in college.

Hank Paulson, obviously, had spent his career on Wall Street, had a deep knowledge of the Street, and also was a very forceful personality, had a very good relationship with the president, and was in a very different place, for example, than Ben Bernanke, who is an academic, quiet guy: spent most of his time thinking about monetary policy.

I prefer to take actors and put them in real settings and real locations and real situations rather than create artificial locations that serve the characters. It's just much easier when you are walking down the street with your actors to do that in a real street that's still open with people on it, rather than to close it off and bring in extras.

I grew up playing basketball and eating hot dogs on the corner.

...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.

OK, so here's the deal. First of all, "The Wall Street Journal" was bought for $5 billion. It's now worth $500 million, OK. They don't have to tell me what to do. "The Wall Street Journal" has been wrong so many different times about so many different things. I am all for free trade, but it's got to be fair. When Ford moves their massive plant to Mexico, we get nothing. We lose all of these jobs.

The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know whats around the corner.

When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.

Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!

If you corner me, you are going to hear some unwelcome truths.

Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner.

Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.

We're in the Chicago suburbs, ruling our 'hood and the streets that lead here. It's a street war, where other suburban gangs fight us for territory. Three blocks away are mansions and million-dollar houses. Right here, in the real world, the street war rages on. The people in the million-dollar houses don't even realize a battle is about to begin less than a half mile from their backyards.

Learn a little patience. You never know what might be around the corner.

I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner.

Turning the corner is the most important, but first play the run.

It started off at a club called Disobey, around the corner from where I live.

Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up.

If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.

We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses.

You might get lucky and die in some corner. ~Soi Fon

Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).

I'll just say I'm lucky. I've got the dopest girl in my corner.

A lot of playcalls are for the corner 3. I thought that's something I should really work on.

Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

I shoot my highest percentage from the right corner, and it's also the shortest shot.