Pedestrian Quotes
50 quotes by 48 authors
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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
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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
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People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.
— Rick Bragg
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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
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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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If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female…
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
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Pedestrian accessibility is the key.
— Kim Delaney
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I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to…
— Will Rogers
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The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit…
— Frank Herbert
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What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it…
— Unknown Author
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I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.
— Brian Greene
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In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica…
— Douglas Adams
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The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile.' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and…
— David Sedaris
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New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.
— Russell Baker
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Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling only for the…
— Bohumil Hrabal
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In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru…
— Jim Morrison
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Watch out for that pedestrian!" "It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!
— Neil Gaiman
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I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill,…
— Norman Foster
Who Wrote These Pedestrian Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 50 Pedestrian Quotes, led by these top contributors: