Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rodney Crowell

So recently I went back and walked it, and it was only 24 blocks. Walking up Wayside Drive from Avenue P up to past Navigation?You know it's still a Pentecostal church, only it's a Spanish one now.

These resolutions are an expression of the will of the people that is simply not being heard on Capitol Hill. This is direct democracy, and it gives average Americans a microphone to say 'I am frustrated, I want my tax dollars spent in my own town, I want our children back home.' It's a unique and exciting new avenue for regular people to make their voices heard.

I've come to the time in my life where I'd like to step back and look at different avenues of life and see where they lead.

I've been a waitress since I was 15 years old. I started at what used to the Dutch Kitchen at the corner of West Grand Avenue and Fourth Street.

James Rosenquist

I used to know Madison Avenue advertisers. I didn't like 'em. Bunch of jerks.

We're looking forward to it, though. It's all about giving small businesses an avenue to best meet their bookkeeping priorities.

Jimmy Breslin

Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.

Creepy is a strong contributor to the current Washington Avenue music scene, ... We thought it was only fair to include them in the event.

David Paul

We do not own the mobile home site on Shields Avenue yet, but we have an option.

As it becomes the main avenue of commerce and communications, people not connected to the Internet could become a new category of the disenfranchised,

At the church, we could only handle 15 to 18 people tops and we had to turn people away much too much. We decided as a committee that we needed to take that really big step so we located a vacant convent on Beach Avenue and convinced the Roman Catholic Diocese to rent it to us.

To us, the Ford versus Chevy race is a remnant of the old Big Three mind-set. We're managing our business to emerge a winner in the Big Six shootout, and it means looking farther east than Jefferson Avenue to measure ourselves.

Viewers have another avenue of getting their programming. Obviously, it's localism. People want local news and local weather and this is just another way they can pick it up.

Jane Anderson

We all make Madison Avenue to be the big, bad wolf, but Evelyn and those women who had inner lives were not manipulated by the advertisers.

Mary Walker

We feel very strongly that this is the only avenue we have,

Chuck D.

We are urging people to exhaust every avenue before bringing their pets here.

We are urgently seeking information about Ms. Carroll and are pursuing every avenue to secure her release.

Mitch Leigh

There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer.

Marilyn Miller

What I don't get is: When you have two interstates running east and west, why do they work on both of them at the same time, for three years in a row? And then, you try to use Michigan Avenue and Ford Road instead, and they're working there, too.

Kevin Nealon

As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.

David Murphy

We have another contract starting in July for 12th Avenue extending from the south side of Bridge Street down to Cedar Street. We?re hoping to start that project early, if we can get this one done before its deadline.

We are doing the same thing now, but he's found a different avenue to do it.

Bruce Williams

We need to be doing something with the Avenue heritage.

When this project comes in, Western Avenue will go back to what it was before (the opening of the Route 3 bridge in north Augusta) and Capital Street will become another Western Avenue. If you have the power, deny them the use of Capitol Street.

Music is one of the easy things to eliminate because of budget cuts, but it's important to give kids the avenue to express themselves.

Fox is not going to tell you this, but it is an open secret on Madison Avenue that they are charging a premium of $50,000 to $100,000 a spot to be in the first six minutes.

Sathya Baba

God has given enough avenues of joy in creation. But they have to be shared and enjoyed. You are entitled to just your share of it.

If we look at consolidating L Avenue and Key Lane, we could potentially look at funding more of that cost.

Ramon Rodriguez

I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.

No construction will occur until the Avenue G viaduct is done.

Occasionally I still do a bit of stuff with people I met there seven years ago. It's like looking up an old lover IRL. But on the whole I've personally exhausted that avenue of research, so it no longer draws me. I did write a novel as a kind of document of that era.

Last night two Boston College students who were visiting students from Loyola University in New Orleans were stabbed on Chestnut Hill Avenue about 1:30 in the morning.

Last night two Boston College students -- who were visiting students from Loyola University in New Orleans -- were stabbed on Chestnut Hill Avenue about 1:30 in the morning,