“The breaking point was to stand outside on 116th Street and have five cabs pass me up.”
Danny Glover
“A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too."”
Jake Johanson
“I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, ''Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.''”
Ellen DeGeneres
“And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, "If he wants to reach my capital he must come by here." In the air all directions lead everywhere.”
H. G. Wells
“Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief”
Honore de Balzac
“I was walking down the street at 3am, and I passed a dry cleaner. The sign in the window said -"Sorry, We're Closed". You don't have to be sorry. It's 3am. And you're a dry cleaners. Its not like I was gonna come back at 10 and say "Hey man, I was here at 3 and you guys were closed... somebody owes me an apology."”
Mitch Hedberg
“We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.”
Holly Derrick