Passers-By Quotes - Page 1

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
Robert Louis Stevenson / Novelist
Sad
House
Loneliness
Tears
Crying
Passers-By
Showing
Sit
Windows
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Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.
Samantha Harvey /
Annoying
Questioning
Intensely
Passers-By
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There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
Vincent Van Gogh / Painter
Fire
May
Smoke
Warm
Ever
Hearts
Himself
Passers-By
See
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It's one thing to be groped and harassed by passers-by, but when the state gropes you, it gives a green light that you are fair game.
Mona Eltahawy / Journalist
Fair Game
Green Light
Harassed
Passers-By
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You look at passers-by in Rome and think, 'Do they know what they have here?' You can say the same about Philadelphia. Do people know what went on here?
Frank Mccourt / Teacher
Philadelphia
Rome
Look People Know
Passers-By
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
Vincent Van Gogh / Painter
Love
Artist
Blazing
Loneliness
Smoke
Soul
Came
Chimney
Continue
Hearth
Passers-By
Sit
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What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
Bernard Levin / Journalist
Architecture
War
Dog
Pain
Second World War
Contemplate
Equipped
Passers-By
Stick
World War
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I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!
Ian Mckellen / Actor
Brother
Doors
Feet
Bowler
Costume
Door
Dressed
Hat
Headed
Passers-By
Tramp
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I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.
Tom Hodgkinson / Writer
Chatting
Rain
Vegetables
Wind
Beds
Gate
Happily
Lean
Passers-By
Ponder
Stare
Supposed
Vegetable
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I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by.
Therese Of Lisieux / Saint
Clouds
Found
Grain
Humble
Lost
Mountain
Saint
Sand
Summit
Wanted
Myself Always Humble
Compared
Difference
Unfortunately
Grain Of Sand
Passers-By
Saints
Trodden
Underfoot
Whose
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I remembered staffing a volunteer table for ACT UP in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood in 1991, on the corner of Castro and 18th Street, and on my table were posters, stickers, and t-shirts that bore the same slogan in all caps - ACT UP slogan house style. I wore one of those shirts to model for passers-by.
Alexander Chee / Fiction Writer
Caps
Castro
Neighborhood
Posters
Remembered
Shirts
Staffing
Volunteer
Slogan
Bore
Corner
Francisco
Passers-By
San
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