Pavement Quotes

128 quotes by 116 authors

The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm outside Ajay's newsagent's.… — Jenny Downham
He's out of his depth on a wet pavement. — Terry Pratchett
I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window.… — Doris Lessing
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and… — Marisha Pessl
Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of… — Jeanne DuPrau
Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a hard, short conflict...Yes… — Charlotte Bronte
Richard wrote a mental diary in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiance, a home, and a life… — Neil Gaiman
Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement — Agatha Christie
As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Look, I admit you seem like a decent person. For all I know you stop and move turtles out of the road whenever you see… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I love being a pavement artist; seriously, I do. It's like when guys who would normally hate being freakishly tall discover basketball, or when girls… — Ally Carter
Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government. — Bob Dylan
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver
She went out in the city with its lights like a radioactive phosphorescence, wandered through galleries where the high-priced art on the walls was the… — Francesca Lia Block
For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get in. The SIM… — David Nicholls
Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal. — Patricia Cornwell
When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where… — D. H. Lawrence
I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. — Virginia Woolf
When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel… — David Mitchell
And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot… — Alexandra Potter

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