Avenue Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Avenue Quotes from famous persons: Marjorie Liu, Ivanka Trump, Stana Katic, Ashley Roberts, George W. S. Trow. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Avenue Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

1
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I had never been a comic book person before, really, because I had no access to them. Once I had access, I thought that these are just another avenue for telling stories and delving into the imagination.
2
I listen to musicLady Gaga, Kanye, Jay-Z, the Beatles, Robert Plantwhile I’m walking down Fifth Avenue to my office in the Trump Tower early each morning.
3
In talking with people that have experienced it, I learned that PTSD is something that a person in a position of authority sometimes thinks they’re not supposed to have. They don’t always have an avenue to personally address it or even discuss it.
4
I didn’t really have a religious upbringing in my life, which was tough at times because I was searching for some kind of meaning, but it also gave me an avenue to find my own sense of connection.
5
The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.
George W. S. Trow
6
If one drag queen penetrates the mainstream and opens up a new avenue for us to take with our careers, that means all of us can potentially do that.
7
I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.
8
Basketball gave me an avenue to live my dream, and I just want to help other kids live their dreams through me.
9
I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.
10
I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It’s just amazing to me now that we’d walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.
11
Industrialisation is necessary. But acquisition is by no means the only avenue through which it can be achieved. The Cochin Airport is a prime example of this. Instead of choosing to acquire the land, the State asked the private parties to negotiate with the landowners directly. The State merely acted as an arbitrator.
Jairam Ramesh
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
Isaac D’Israeli
13
I wrote my book ‘The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue’ completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in my stand-up, I improvise initially, never questioning it too closely.
14
Engel & Volkers is international, high end and associated with the very best in real estate which is well represented by our new Park Avenue address.
Anthony Hitt
15
I have known Aparna Sen for many years. We worked together in her film ’15 Park Avenue’ which was in English.
16
Administrations had come and gone in Pennsylvania Avenue, but many old entertaining traditions had survived – thru habit and not thru merit.
17
I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it’s 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn’t kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a guy‘s camel-hair coat.
18
I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.
19
Once you become more like Madison Avenue, you become acutely sensitive to what’s going to annoy your clients.
20
I’m very impressed by St. Patrick’s. Another deity to me is definitely Saks Fifth Avenue. Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they’re home. I’m that way at Saks.
Caroline Rhea
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My first retailer was Saks Fifth Avenue. I didn’t even know how to ship a box to a retailer. Like, how do you pack it? How do you send it to make sure it gets on the floor? You figure it out as you go along.
22
The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.
23
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.
24
Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.
25
We know that trade doesn’t just help Wall Street or even just Main Street; it also helps businesses on the side streets, such as Elston Avenue in my home district.
26
First Avenue is one of my favorite places to play. All along, they’ve treated me with respect.
27
I was walking down First Avenue, heading to CVS. And two police cars pulled over and stopped, and rolled down the window and one of them asked, ‘Are you Isaac Wright?’ When I said yes, they immediately got out and asked me to take pictures with them in front of the police car.
28
A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it makes you feel anguish and sadness and pain. Then in other moments, when you look at Jackie Kennedy walking down Fifth Avenue, that makes you feel glory and richness.
29
Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.
30
Jean Toomer is a phantom of the Harlem Renaissance. Pick up any general study of the literature written by Afro-Americans, and there is the name of Jean Toomer. In biographies and memoirs of Harlem Renaissance figures, his name is invoked as if he had been one of the sights along Lenox Avenue.
31
Conservation is for guilty people on Park Avenue with poodles and Pekingeses.
Peter Beard
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Inspired by London‘s Savile Row, I wanted to bring an American curated experience for men to Madison Avenue… a place where they cannot only shop but explore.
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But there’s still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.
34
I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.
35
The only time I’ve ever really felt envy is when I’ve watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
Harold Feinstein
36
Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson – from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.
37
After ‘Urinetown,’ ‘Avenue Q’ and now ‘Mormon,’ is there an envelope remaining to be pushed?
38
Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.
39
If there was a turning point for me, it was ‘The Bridges at Toko-Ri.’ It is a very fine short novel. But it gave me very little satisfaction. Really. I decided I wasn’t going to go down that avenue.
40
I’m 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here‘s why… I’m a merchandiser, I’m not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of.
Mickey Spillane
41
They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.
42
Personally, my favorite character onscreen was in the film ’15 Park Avenue’ where I played a schizophrenic.
43
I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I’m using football.
44
Rock n’ roll was my art school. For many people from working-class backgrounds, rock wasn’t a chosen thing, it was the only thing: the only avenue of creativity available for them.
45
The reason why I’m a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.
46
For a boy of ten, used to the coal bings and rust-coloured burns of Cowdenbeath, the fields and woodland of Kingswood, with its overgrown but stately avenue of copper-barked sequoias, felt like a local version of paradise.
47
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
Carroll Shelby
48
I like going to New York because I don’t get recognised there – although, the first time I was there, I’d only been in the city an hour when the tallest guy came up to me on Fifth Avenue and said my name, gave me a high-five, and then just walked off.
49
It can always be transformed into an avenue of information.
Slick Rick
50
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.
51
I see no reason why the artistic world can’t absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can’t we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?
52
I love walking down Clinton Hill’s Greene Avenue. It’s very neighborhoody.
53
I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.
54
Certain athletes show themselves as marketable, and the UFC gets behind them; they help push them. I’m a husband, a father of four, a gym owner, an actor, an analyst, a stuntman, a Christian – every avenue you can take it, I have those layers.
55
Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer‘s avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
56
Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.
57
We gave the show away and in return, we received a certain number of minutes per hour for the three-hour show that we could sell to Madison Avenue. One of the first sponsors was MGM Records.
58
I was training in Gleason’s Gym on 30th and 8th Avenue, where it was the Mecca of boxing, and a guy walked in who couldn’t rub two quarters together and said, ‘Did you ever think of being on TV?’ And somehow I ended up in ‘Taxi,’ which is the craziest thing of all.
59
It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists.
60
I’ve always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.
61
When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there’s light pollution and fog, and I couldn’t see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.
62
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.
63
In my hometown there is a pub named after me – The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?!
64
But ‘This Town’ is official Washington. It’s political Washington. It’s not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It’s not the Washington that lives in Gaithersburg. It’s not the Washington that accounts for most of the population. ‘This Town’ refers to the people who think they run your country.
65
Passyunk Productions is our film & tv production company. The name comes from a street in Philly, Passyunk Avenue, where the concept of The Roots was born, as Ahmir and I started out busking on the corner of 5th & Passyunk back in the early ’90s.
66
I would advise anyone seriously interested in acting to study, train, and work as much as possible… You will know soon enough if it’s the right avenue for you.
Keith Coogan
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The very first audition, you just go in and sing. The second one, they give you this sort of cheapy, Walmart-looking puppet – before they give you the $6,500 ‘Avenue Q’ puppet.
68
I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.
James Longstreet
69
I hate dentists. That’s why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn’t go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
70
I love ‘Ocean Avenue’ by Yellowcard. That’s always been one of my favorites.
71
I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.
72
My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.
73
I’m into environmental and ecological issues, so maybe that is an avenue to go down.
74
Madison Avenue makes us addicts of consumerism, using glass wampum to steal our capacity to direct our own lives.
Alex Jones
75
It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.
George H. White
76
I made a commitment and a promise to Ms. McSpadden, Michael Brown‘s mother, that I will pursue justice with the family at every avenue, be it on the federal level or at the state level.
William Lacy Clay, Jr.
77
If these rich women from 5th Avenue spend a fortune on cashmere sweaters, they will come to my store to buy gummy bears.
78
I have a center at 412 West Chicago Avenue. It’s called the Jesse White Community Center and Fieldhouse. It’s a state-of-the-art gymnastics facility, game room, weight room, computer lab.
79
My family moved to York, Pa., when I was eight. As a kid I spent virtually all of my free time at Memorial Park, which was just down the street from my house on Springdale Avenue in our blue-collar neighborhood.
80
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
81
I take his talent and his passion with me – to the stage of the Opry, to the podium at the CMA Awards, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, into my own living room. I am the realization of my grandfather‘s dream. I am a player.
82
I’ve successfully convinced others to let me redevelop the historic Old Post Office Pavilion on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. I also led the acquisition of the iconic 800-acre Doral Resort & Spa from my hospital bed after giving birth to my daughter, Arabella.
83
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
84
If I’m walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I’ll say I’m stopped 10 times.
85
Copywriters on Madison Avenue constantly grapple with the question of where their work sits on the totem pole of ‘real’ writing.
86
It’s craziness to see yourself as damaged goods, so I was the goofy kid who’d stop a strange adult and say, ‘Do you know how to get to Palm Avenue?’ They’d say no, and I’d say, ‘You go two blocks and turn right. You can’t miss it.’
87
Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.
88
Sometimes it hurts when I see my role being edited. But that wasn’t the case with ’15 Park Avenue… ‘ or ‘Monsoon Wedding.’
89
I must have been six or seven years old at the time. My family lived on the bottom floor of a two-story house on Cruger Avenue in the Bronx, and every night at 9:30, I sat by my little radio in our kitchen and listened to a half hour of Bing’s records regularly spilling out over WNEW.
90
This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.
91
I had seen ‘Avenue Q’ off-Broadway back in 2003 and fell in love with it. I just thought it was the smartest, funniest thing I’d seen in a long time.
92
My look was based on the Madison Avenue guy who’s just lost his job. Ivy League suit a bit scuzzed up, an outgrown layer cut and five o’clock shadow.
93
I moved to New York on October 21, 2004, and it was the day that the Chelsea Grill, a restaurant in Hell‘s Kitchen on 9th Avenue between 46th and 47th Street, opened. I had never waited a table in my life, but I walked in and lied to the manager in a very J. Pierrepont Finch way.
94
I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, and it felt like I was literally walking out of a jail cell that I had been in. At that moment, I realized I could shave if I wanted. It was up to me and no one else.
95
I was a huge fan of ‘Avenue Q’ long before I ever dreamed of being a part of it. I saw it off-Broadway at the Vineyard and waited at the stage door for autographs!
96
I don’t think there is a clear-cut avenue for what I do, and I am OK with that. I am just a lover of music.
97
If Madison Avenue advertising executives were to pick a song that would best represent America, the last one they would choose is ‘The Star Spangled Banner.’
98
I was a Versace perfume girl at Saks Fifth Avenue, and Rihanna actually came up to the counter and asked for something. And she wouldn’t even take her sunglasses off! She was so mean to me. Not mean, but, like, guarded. I don’t blame her, though.
99
We all grew up in Bronxville, I went to Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart – in the old location on Convent Avenue – and I’ve lived here since 1962. I couldn’t feel more like a New Yorker.
100
Until the province is willing to look internally at their inflated budget, to engage the private sector, to exhaust every other available avenue, we can’t justify a series of costly new taxes on residents who are already telling us that they just can’t afford it.
Doug Ford
101
Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know ‘That Girl?’ Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it’s Park Avenue! And that’s what I can see out my window.