Avenue Quotes
Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.
Sara Blakely
My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home - earless, toothless vagabonds - to teach me the arts of the old bagarre.
Tom Hardy
My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Steve Carlton
I have been thinking about joining the Peace Corps. That is something that I would absolutely love to do. I think that would be an incredible experience, so that's an avenue that I might want to look at.
Lindsey Shaw
I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.
Robert Iler
You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
Dick Gregory
It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.
Josh Schwartz
This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.
Willie Aames
I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.
James Lipton
It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.
George H. White
And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.
Bill Sienkiewicz
Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.
Andy Grove
I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.
Stone Gossard
The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.
Henry Louis Gates
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
Marshall McLuhan
I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
Serj Tankian
I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.
Jean Pigozzi
The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.
Spencer Bachus
My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.
Bobby Flay
I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.
Tom Allen
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
Caroll Shelby
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.
Jason Alexander
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
E. L. Doctorow
I've always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.
Nikki Reed
They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.
Sharon Gless
What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?
Jerome Cavanagh
It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.
Pitbull
If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times.
Kristin Davis