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- Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping… — Bill Bryson
- 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
- Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the… — Anton Chekhov
- To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can… — Horace Kephart
- There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was… — Walter Benjamin
- Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way… — 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… — 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,… — 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… — Rebecca Solnit
- Do not ride in cars: they are responsible for 20% of all fatal accidents. Do not stay at home: 17% of all… — Mark Leslie
- God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and… — Harold Brodkey
- A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul. — David McCord