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  • I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!

    Music   Pain   Italian  
    Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.193, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share.

    Morning   War   Coffee  
    Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.23, Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

    Wedding   Three   Crowded  
    Interview on Panorama (television program), 20 Nov. 1995
  • Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.

    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.92, Random House
  • It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander to her; they would bring back the scene,- not of his repulse and rejection the day before but the looks, the actions of the day before that. He went along the crowded streets mechanically, winding in and out among the people, but never seeing them, -almost sick with longing for that one half-hour-that one brief space of time when she clung to him, and her heart beat against his-to come once again.

    Heart   Space   People  
    Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1528, BookCaps Study Guides
  • But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in us—to know Whence our lives come and where they go.

    Heart   Fire   Desire  
    Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.24, Courier Corporation
  • Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

    'The Poets' (1876)
  • The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

    Country   Boys   Noise  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.

    Life   Opposites   Matter  
    Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”
  • I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.

    People   Car   Watches  
    Ella Reeve Bloor (1940). “We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor”, New York : International Publishers
  • There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.

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