Barack Obama Quotes

I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about.

I just like to walk around New York, just put my iPod on and walk around.

People-watching in New York while listening to Bach is kind of amazing.

I'll just walk around New York and watch people on the streets.

If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

I run everywhere and eavesdrop. It's the best way to see a city.

I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.

I like to walk around Central Park and take in the vibe, have a picnic if the weather is good, and people-watch.

I like going out and looking at people, and they inspire me so much.

As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.

I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.

I love to sit, to watch people; even in New York, I don't feel as free as in London.

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can't just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.

A great day in New York would be to wake up, get a cup of coffee and head up to Central Park for a nice walk. Then I'd go down to the East Village and stroll around. After that, maybe I'd go check out a museum or catch an indie film at the Angelika.

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.

I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.

I watch people from the top of buses who don't know they're being watched. It's quite fascinating.

With 'Urban Secrets,' I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.