Street Life Quotes

• Unos barrios habitables con una vibrante vida en la calle estimularán también nuestra vida económica.

  Gavin Newsom

  Economic, Neighborhood, Wells

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• 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.

  Willa Cather

  Breathing, Cities, This Generation

  "Willa Cather in Europe". Book by Willa Cather, 1956.

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

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Mixing, Life Is, Divine

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• Permítanme decir para que conste, que no soy un gángster y nunca lo he sido. No soy el ladrón que te roba el bolso. No soy el tipo que te roba el coche. No estoy con la gente que roba y hace daño a los demás. Sólo soy un hermano que se defiende.

  Tupac Shakur

  Hurt, Brother, Fighting

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• El dinero sólo es algo que necesitas en caso de que no mueras mañana.

  Martin Sheen

  Money, Needs, Tomorrow

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• Lo que vale la pena hacer, vale la pena hacerlo por dinero.

  Michael Douglas

  Money, Funny Money, Greed Is Good

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• I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.

  Antony Gormley

  Art, Believe, Cities

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• La codicia, a falta de una palabra mejor, es buena. La codicia está bien, la codicia funciona.

  Oliver Stone

  Película, Gran Año, Codicia

  "Wall Street". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

  Cornel West

  Philosophy, Thinking, Different

  Fuente: genius.com

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• Se trata de dólares, chico. El resto es conversación.

  Michael Douglas

  Money, Kids, Bucks

  FaceBook post by Michael Douglas from Apr 25, 2013

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• Debe barrer las calles tan bien que toda la multitud del cielo y de la tierra se detenga para decir: "Aquí vive un gran barrendero que hizo bien su trabajo".

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, Greatness, Heaven

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). "La sabiduría de Martin Luther King, Jr", Plume

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• There is something about the light, the heat (physical and perhaps metaphysical), the vibrancy of street life, and the rawness and disjointedness of much of the tropical world that has moved and disturbed me - in places where the indigenous culture is often transformed by an external northern culture (sometimes my own... I suspect that one has a few serious creative obsessions in life. I certainly cannot seem to escape this one.

  Alex Webb

  Light, Creative, Culture

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• Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops, and have passed a judgment, the gist of which is: "This is deplorable! If these people had decent homes and a more private or bosky outdoor place, they wouldn't be on the street!" That judgment represents a profound misunderstanding of cities. It makes no more sense than to drop in at a testimonial banquet in a hotel and conclude that if these people had wives who could cook, they would give their parties at home.

  Jane Jacobs

  Party, Drinking, Home

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• La codicia, a falta de una palabra mejor, es buena.

  Michael Douglas

  Película, Gran Año, Codicia

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• I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.

  Kurt Cobain

  Teenage, Independent, Bridges

  "Our December 1992 Cover Story: 'Family Values'" by Jonathan Poneman, www.spin.com. December 12, 2017.

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• I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.

  Ali MacGraw

  Mentir, Pensar, Gente

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• They're not parallel at all. They're my concerns, but how they're expressed particularly on the page is completely divorced from who I am in my street life.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Who I Am, Pages, Concern

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cousin, Writing, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). "Ensayos y conferencias", p.635, Library of America

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• New York y Los Ángeles son lugares estupendos para visitar, pero ahora no me gustaría vivir en ninguno de los dos. New York me parece extremadamente claustrofóbica y sucia. Los Ángeles es un lugar bastante agradable. Pero no hay bullicio ni vida callejera.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  New York, Nice, Dirty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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