Pavement Quotes
Pavement Quote of the day
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.
The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph.
On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words.
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 the vapors.
It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.
Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement.
I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.
I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.
I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.
"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."
Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers
He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.
Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.
When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.
Nothing's gonna change the world, nothing's gonna change the world. There was Lennon and a happy gun, there were words on the pavement.
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.
Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?
It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand
She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.
Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.
Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.
Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.
The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.
To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the pavement. He was asked what he was looking for. He said "I lost my watch."
It’s been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it’s time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement.
As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.
I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.
A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.
All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.
Suppose I lay down on the pavement and you run over me a few times with my own car...just for old times.
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. Perfumed monster spit. What was the world coming to?
When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.
In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.