Famous quotes containing the words street, called and/or desire:
“[I]t forged ahead to become a full-fledged metropolis, with 143 faro games, 30 saloons, 4 banks, 27 produce stores, 3 express offices—and an arena for bull-and-bear fights, which, described by Horace Greeley in the New York Tribune, is said to have given Wall Street its best-known phrases.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“It couldn’t be called ungentle.
But how thoroughly departmental.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)