Sidewalk Quotes

142 quotes by 120 authors

Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a… — James Q. Wilson
We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists… — Ivan Chtcheglov
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past… — Jack Kerouac
Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building,… — Bruce Sterling
Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you… — Heather O'Neill
I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on the sidewalks, with… — Andrew Sullivan
I hate fashion. Or the word fashion, which sounds colorful, extravagant, expensive and gorgeous. â€œI never wanted to walk the main street of fashion. I… — Yohji Yamamoto
Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be… — Bernadette Roberts
Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if… — Jack Handey
Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the… — Maxine Hong Kingston
The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech. — Jay Sekulow
Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like that snail. I… — Jack Handey
I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of… — Grace Abbott
If they have moving sidewalks in the future, when you get on them, I think you should have to assume sort of a walking shape… — Jack Handey
People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to… — Michael Zaslow
For those that say I endanger my child: it's more likely that you will fall while walking on the sidewalk than I will while skating… — Tony Hawk
One bright pansy popping through a sidewalk crack will get weeded or stepped on; it's not until twenty fabulous flowers bust through and the pavement… — S. Bear Bergman
Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find… — Bill Watterson
Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels… — Megan Abbott
When you're...stepping over a guy on the sidewalk...does it ever occur to you to think, 'Wow. Maybe our system doesn't work?' — Bill Hicks

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