...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I am not going to advocate ... the abandoning of the improved modes of travel; but I am going to brag as… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Do not ride in cars: they are responsible for 20% of all fatal accidents. Do not stay at home: 17% of all… — Mark Leslie Copy Share Image
In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot. — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The pleasure a man gets from a landscape would [not] last long if he were convinced a priori that the forms and… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
These Seattle Seahawks wide receivers have been called pedestrian, they've been called no-namers, but they always come up with the big play. — Nate Burleson Copy Share Image
S'mimasen," Alyss said repeatedly as they brushed against passerby. "What does that mean?" Will asked as they reached a stretch of street… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways,… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
I do not think I exaggerate the importance or the charms of pedestrianism, or our need as a people to cultivate the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
“...moderate social deviance or class non-conformism I have imputed to the first generation of pedestrians. Improved roads, after all, were one of… — Robin Jarvis Copy Share Image
In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
You know, the fact that every morning you get a script in your mailbox, that's going to stop. All these little pedestrian,… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
Your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image