Famous quotes containing the words street, amsterdam, avenue, eighth and/or line:
“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock.”
—Oscar Solomon Straus (1850–1926)
“Has anyone ever told you that you overplay your various roles rather severely, Mr. Kaplan? First you’re the outraged Madison Avenue man who claims he’s been mistaken for someone else. Then you play the fugitive from justice, supposedly trying to clear his name of a crime he knows he didn’t commit. And now you play the peevish lover stung by jealously and betrayal. It seems to me you fellows could stand a little less training from the FBI and a little more from the Actors Studio.”
—Ernest Lehman (b.1920)
“Thou shalt not steal.”
—Bible: Hebrew Exodus, 20:15.
The eighth commandment.
“There’s a line between love and fascination that’s hard to see on an evening such as this.”
—Ned Washington (1901–1976)