Pavement Quotes

128 quotes by 114 authors

Suppose I lay down on the pavement and you run over me a few times with my own car...just for old times. — Janet Evanovich
What do you mean fainted? Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of… — Ilona Andrews
The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were… — Matt Taibbi
You're assuming they would listen to me," I said. Cole lifted his hands off the roof of the Volkswagen; cloudy fingerprints evaporated seconds ater he… — Maggie Stiefvater
The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-block, picked… — Penelope Lively
The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People… — Virginia Woolf
Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the… — Douglas Adams
Long strands of drool stretched from between his fangs and dripped on the pavement, sending a heady scent of jasmine to swirl through the air.… — Ilona Andrews
The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass. — Wendell Berry
Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks… — Julie Andrews
And there it is: Even though weâ€™re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart. — Lauren Oliver
There is evil! It's actual, like cement. I can't believe it. I can't stand it. Evil is not a view ... it's an ingredient in… — Philip K. Dick
This morning I understand what it means to die: when we disappear, it is the others who die for us, for here I am ,… — Muriel Barbery
She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement. — Francine Pascal
And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath… — Virginia Woolf
He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known… — Alice Hoffman
Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind a waiter, now… — Virginia Woolf
Whatâ€™s the good of these great fragile fits of enthusiasm, these jaded jumps of joys? We know nothing anymore, but the dead stars; we gaze… — Andre Breton
Do you believe in spirits? Or ghosts?...Yes, I do. I believe in ghosts....They're the ones who haunt us. The ones who have left us behind."… — Christina Baker Kline
For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and glass and metal… — Veronica Roth

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