Street Crosstown Line

Famous quotes containing the words street, crosstown and/or line:

    “The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.”
    —Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

    “The three of them are enveloped
    turning now to go crosstown in their
    sense of each other, of pleasure,
    of weather, of corners,
    of leisurely tensions between them
    and private silence.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “The modern picture of The Artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be whatever the fat burghers feared most, to cross the line wherever they drew it, to look at the world in a way they couldn’t see, to be high, live low, stay young forever—in short, to be the bohemian.”
    —Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)