(116 quotes found)
“Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil”
Charles Simmons
“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind”
David Hume
“This is going to be like the 'Bridges of Madison Avenue', a very brief affair I'll write about in sappy letters to my grandchildren.”
Sarah Jessica Parker
“To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.”
Catharine Esther Beecher
“Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.”
Cullen Hightower
“Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“[He was] a lawyer who usually operated with the delicacy of a Lexington Avenue express train.”
Joyce Wadler
“In Naples you have 5th Avenue, and you have Coconut Grove in Miami. We want to put Cape Coral on the map.”
Bill Clarke
“Buchanan (Avenue) was a raging river.”
Barry Grigsby
“Basically, it sets up an avenue for those additional discussions to occur and to examine what the options are.”
Allen Haynie