Famous quotes containing the words wall street, occupy, wall and/or street:
“On Wall Street he and a few othershow many?three hundred, four hundred, five hundred?had become precisely that ... Masters of the Universe.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
“It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of womans sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.”
—Susan B. Anthony (18201906)
“When all this is over, you know what Im going to do? Im gonna get married, gonna have about six kids. Ill line em up against the wall and tell them what it was like here in Burma. If they dont cry, Ill beat the hell out of em.”
—Samuel Fuller, U.S. screenwriter, and Milton Sperling. Samuel Fuller. Barney, Merrills Marauders (1962)
“Baltimore lay very near the immense protein factory of Chesapeake Bay, and out of the bay it ate divinely. I well recall the time when prime hard crabs of the channel species, blue in color, at least eight inches in length along the shell, and with snow-white meat almost as firm as soap, were hawked in Hollins Street of Summer mornings at ten cents a dozen.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)