Street Savvy Quotes

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

What you learned on the streets of Brooklyn will be a damn sight more helpful to your president than anything you learned at Harvard.

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

I'm what they call an intelligent hoodlum.

Gotta keep your ear to the streets. That's Rule No. 1.

I've been around the block.

On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.

I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.

New Yorkers are real gritty and tough.

There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.

Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.