He thought that they were walking there like Mickey and Minnie Mouse and that they probably appeared ridiculous to the passers-by.
He thought that they were walking there like Mickey and Minnie Mouse and that they probably appeared ridiculous to the passers-by.
It was a very rewarding, relaxing atmosphere. You see how much the whole school and community really cares. Passers-by kept stopping in and the players came in all day long, and you glow all day.
I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
The science of economics hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.
What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passers-by to drop their unused minutes into it.
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
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