Bleecker Street Quotes & Sayings

Reading is the true foundation of our civil liberties. — Patricia O'Hara

Better laid than never. — Joan Rivers

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

My stomach does a little flip thing that I'm realy ging yo have to get used to, since it seems to be a side effect of seeing him. — Nicola Yoon

The greatest romance in the life of a lyricist is when the right word meets the right note; often, however, a Park Avenue phrase elopes with a Bleecker Street chord, resulting in a shotgun wedding and a quickie divorce. — Yip Harburg

It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started on the insidious transformation of Bleecker Street! — Jessica Hagedorn

Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out ... are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control. — Naomi Wolf

And they lived ever after, whether they were happy about it or not. — Allyse Near

A person who is lying or cheating will often respond to an incentive differently than an honest person. — Steven D. Levitt

Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the crush of people that made the West Village of Manhattan unique in the world. In a single block you could buy fertility statues from Tanzania, rare Amazonian orchids, a pawned brass tuba, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, or the best, most expensive cup of coffee you ever tasted. It was the doughnuts, incidentally, that attracted Gaia. — Francine Pascal

I think, in our life I think that when you are an actor, when you are a producer, you have to be very discreet about your personal life, and you have to be closed in, in harmony and in affection and in everything. — Sophia Loren

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip. — Billy Bob Thornton

Once you understand how the ingredients work together, then you can go off on your own. Till then, you're just wasting good food and everybody's time. — Natalie Baszile

While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order. — Ellen Willis

Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident. — Edward Dahlberg

There's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best. — Mark Wahlberg

The efficiency of a President at the beginning of his term depends on their capacity to get everything under control. That was my case. But once the institutions have been put in place, and the responsibilities delegated, the leader becomes a reference, a referee, a symbol and unifying figure for the nation. The issue is how and when to recognize the moment when staying in power becomes counterproductive. — Paul Kagame

If anyone takes me seriously then they actually must have a problem .. Music is fun its not algebra. — Diplo