Flushing Main Street

Famous quotes containing the words main street, main and/or street:

    “Main Street was never the same. I read Gide and tried to
    translate Proust. Now nothing is real except French wine.
    For absurdity is reality, my loneliness unreal, my mind tired.
    And I shall die an old Parisian.”
    —Conrad Kent Rivers (1933–1968)

    “I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.”
    —Alan Brien (b. 1925)

    “Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and tavern.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)