Pedestrian Quotes

50 Pedestrian quotes by 48 unique authors

To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can carry it without… — Horace Kephart
There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to forego… — Walter Benjamin
Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk… — Geoff Nicholson
There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems… — Cornelia Otis Skinner
Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the mutual hatred… — H. Allen Smith
Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of… — Rebecca Solnit
God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without… — Harold Brodkey
A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul. — David McCord
The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man .… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Everything in Louisiana is about layers. There are layers of race, layers of class, layers of survival, layers of death, and layers of rebirth. To… — Don Lemon
Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast to a genre… — Michael Cisco
Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian. — Gregory Mcdonald
Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of… — Camille Paglia
On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town. — David Byrne
...It would be possible to make much more progress than has been made if the NCI knew its job better, knew how to make discoveries...The… — Linus Pauling
A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by everyone who meets… — Karl Philipp Moritz
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day. — Brendan Behan
A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the… — Laini Taylor
We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a… — Lillian Hellman
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything… — James Laughlin
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were… — Bernie Taupin
People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant. — Rick Bragg
It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on… — Stone Gossard
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument… — Tom Waits

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