Quotes about Alley

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record. Votes: 3

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat Votes: 3

Sugar Cane Alley' had a lot of international success, big success everywhere. Votes: 3

Inauguration Security was tighter than Kirstie Alley in a pair of spandex pants. Votes: 3

We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men. Votes: 3

My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor. Votes: 3

The low-ceiling price bazaar for sexual relief was a street called Middie Alley. You could barely get a pushcart through this avenue. Top price-twenty-five cents. Votes: 3

Francois Truffaut was my godfather on 'Sugar Cane Alley.' He believed in me and in that story, and told everyone that it should be made. Votes: 3

In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your sole function will be to drink beer. Votes: 3

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor. "Rocky" was an ensemble film. "F.I.S.T." was an ensemble. "Paradise Alley" was an ensemble. Votes: 3

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated. Votes: 3

I came up with myself. FAYZ. Spelled F-A-Y-Z. It stands for Fallout Alley Youth Zone. Fallout Alley, and nothing but kids." Howard laughed his mean laugh. "Don't worry, Astrid, it's just a FAYZ. Get it? Just a FAYZ. Votes: 3

Kirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house. She was wonderful - just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar. Votes: 3

I prefer big Oprah. I know Oprah wants to be skinny Oprah, but her head is too gigantic to fit on a skinny body. She has to accept that, like Kirstie Alley, she was meant to be...ahm....voluptuous! Votes: 3

In the, uh, '30s and '40s, the Brill Building was the hub of, uh, musical activity in Tin Pan Alley in New York City. I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there. Votes: 3

It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line Votes: 3

After college, I went to Alley Theatre in Houston to work in their apprentice actor program. I thought I was gonna get discovered. It didn't happen. I moved back to Germantown, Tennessee, outside of Memphis, and taught at my old high school. Votes: 3

I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley. Votes: 3

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. Votes: 1

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera. Votes: 1

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere. Votes: 1

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. Votes: 1

Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline. Votes: 1

The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury. Votes: 1

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. Votes: 1

The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun. Votes: 1

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley. Votes: 1

Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot it was to make out. Votes: 1

Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it. Votes: 1

When I was seven, these kids in the alley behind our house in Omaha called me Freckleface Strawberry. I hated my freckles, and I hated that name. I thought it was humiliating in the way that only a seven-year-old could hate it. Votes: 1

Few Americans have ever met their Congresspeople. They don't see them at the grocery store; they don't meet them at the bowling alley. They're more likely to see their representatives in photographs from the Daily Grill in Washington, D.C., than at a local town hall. Votes: 1

To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy. Votes: 1

But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A. Votes: 1

I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy. Votes: 1

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. Votes: 1

Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley? Votes: 1

The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions. Votes: 1

I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley. Votes: 1

Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before. Votes: 1

I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage. Votes: 1

'Wayne of Gotham' is very much a father-and-son exploration. We've always seen Thomas Wayne through the years as this figure carved in marble; this perfect man. The only thing we really know about is that he died in that alley outside of a theater. But every son has to confront the reality of his father at some point in his life. Votes: 1

I started skating when I was about 10 years old. It was in an alleyway. I picked up my brother's skateboard and stood on it. I started to roll down the alley, and I yelled at my brother asking him how I turn the thing. At the end of the alley, I just jumped off, picked up the board and physically turned it around. Votes: 1

Easy street is a blind alley. Votes: 0

And you call yourselves a bowling alley? Votes: 0

You want perfection, go to a bowling alley! Votes: 0

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul. Votes: 0

That cup of tea is definately not down your alley Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try! Votes: 0

Git an eyeful of cesspool alley the land of opportunity. Votes: 0

It would be hilarious if I worked in a bowling alley. Votes: 0

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley. Votes: 0

Without Scientology, I would be in an alley somewhere looking for dope. Votes: 0

To be a mentor for up-and-coming artists is right up my alley. Votes: 0

I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world. Votes: 0

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee. Votes: 0

Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence. Votes: 0

Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. Votes: 0

It was like two drunks in a back alley throwing punches at each other. Votes: 0

I think we are in rats' alley Where the dead men lost their bones. Votes: 0

Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature. Votes: 0

The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley. Votes: 0

If you can't beat 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on the ice. Votes: 0

The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief. Votes: 0

Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception Votes: 0

You start with the sublime and end up in an alley jerking away for dear life. Votes: 0

My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley. Votes: 0

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley. Votes: 0

And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station Votes: 0

Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food. Votes: 0

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. Votes: 0

The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter. Votes: 0

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. Votes: 0

Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley. Votes: 0

She knew there was something dark in her then, when she left the alley and the shadows followed. Votes: 0

It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley. Votes: 0

Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee. Votes: 0

You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain. Votes: 0

I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley. Votes: 0

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of. Votes: 0

I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley. Votes: 0

Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind? Votes: 0

You know. Uh. The bowling alley doesn't seem to be improving my game. That is the one thing I have noticed. Votes: 0

I don't know a single Republican in Montana who would get in a fight in a bowling alley for John McCain. Votes: 0

The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn. Votes: 0

If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be the monkey. Votes: 0

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley. Votes: 0

In the end, that's a blind alley - we have to get back to being able to think on our feet and react. Votes: 0

What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast! Votes: 0

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley. Votes: 0

Shakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well. Votes: 0

The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream. Votes: 0

The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires. Votes: 0

Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created. Votes: 0

When you see a white guy at three in the morning on your beat in an alley, you kind of - "What's this guy doing here?" Votes: 0

The young man who appeared at the mouth of the alley was pale in the lamplight—paler even than he usually was, which was quite pale indeed. Votes: 0

If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine. Votes: 0

...wings—-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame. Votes: 0

When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross. Votes: 0

Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley. Votes: 0

When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously. Votes: 0

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat Votes: 0

If Elmore Leonard met Jim Thompson down a dark alley at midnight they might emerge a week later with thick beards, bloodshot eyes and the manuscript for THE BIG O. Votes: 0

Where's Simon?"..."Is he okay? Why isn't he here?" She glared at Derek. "Where'd you leave him?" Passed out in an alley." Derek frowned in thought. "Not sure where, though... Votes: 0

She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow. Votes: 0

I'm a big fan of Courtney Love. I love Hole and I love her acting and I love her attitude. I just hope I never meet her in a dark alley. Votes: 0

Don't get me wrong - I'll put $25 on the ground and then if you pick it up and we have sex in an alley, that's not a crime. That's a coincidence. Votes: 0

The stars blink like a hairnet that was dropped / on a seat and now it is lying in the alley behind / the theatre where my play is echoed by dying voices. Votes: 0

Singing, dancing, and acting! The part [of Roxie in Let It Shine] was right up my alley. Plus, the thought of playing a rock star was like a dream for me. Votes: 0

Victim disarmament types are sick, sick people, who'd rather see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose than see her with a gun in her hand. Votes: 0

...intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust and anguish of him who has stumbled into a blind alley. Votes: 0

I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows. Votes: 0

He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time. Votes: 0

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying. Votes: 0

The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate. Votes: 0