Street Quotes

Street Quote of the day

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Back in the day, a pair of tight jeans was enough to earn a girl a bad reputation. Now slutty has gone Main Street.

Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.

… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.

Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

Never been to Sesame Street but I flip a Big Bird. And I know "stealers" and they not from Pittsburgh.

I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to snobbery.

An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

Main Street is almost alright.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded.

We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street.

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.

Get involved in everything you've ever dreamed of doing.

Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish.

The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

The person I enjoyed interviewing the most was Elmo from Sesame Street because he is so unpredictable and he is always eating my hair and my face.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.

A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

Soon, I'm going to need help crossing the street.

I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.

it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams

I've noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.

I never thought I'd be on Sesame Street with Elmo and Big Bird. I'm still thrilled. I'm on a high.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.