Pavement Quotes

• 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.

  

  John Milton
  • Stars
  • Galaxy
  • Pavement

• If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Convince
  • Pavement
  • Fascist

• When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Pavement
  • Ripped

• I'd like to ghost-write Liz Phair's novel. But I don't really know about that. It seems like a dignified thing to segue into as I approach the other side of 45. My hands are just full right now. There's the potential to try to write some kind of biography of Pavement - sort of a cryptic, nonfiction/fiction blowout. The story's never been told well. But that's a lot of inward-gazing that I'm not sure I want to do. I like to look out.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Hands
  • Novel
  • Ghost

• 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 is ruined anyway that someone decides maybe it isn't a sidewalk at all, but a flower garden. So please, for the love of gender--go bloom.

  

  S. Bear Bergman
  • Garden
  • Flower
  • Pavement

• Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Hair
  • Garden
  • Pavement

• One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness.

  

  Benton MacKaye
  • Function
  • Wilderness
  • Essences

• Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Tears
  • Pavement
  • Monastery Ruin

• When I moved to London, you could park your motorcycle in the pavement, on the sidewalk. We would stay here and just leave it and go about your business. But now something was sort of encroaching in London. There's cameras everywhere. You can't do anything. You're not allowed to be in a group.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Business
  • London
  • Cameras

• I am walking home from school slowly, playing a game in which it's forbidden to step on the cracks between the slabstone squares of the pavement. The sun is playing its game of lines and shadows. Nothing happens. There is nothing but this moment, in which I am walking toward home, walking in time. But suddenly, time pierces me with its sadness. This moment will not last. With every step I take, a sliver of time vanishes. Soon, I'll be home, and then this, this nowness will be the past, I think, and time seems to escape behind me, like an invisible current being sucked into an invisible vortex. How can this be, that this fullness, this me on the street, this moment which is perfectly abundant, will be gone? It's like that time I broke a large porcelain doll and no matter how much I wished it back to wholeness, it lay there on the floor in pieces. I can't do anything about this backward tug either. How many moments do I have in life? I hear my own breathing: with every breath, I am closer to death. I slow down my steps: I'm not home yet, but soon I will be, now I am much closer, but not yet… not yet… not yet… Remember this, I command myself, as if that way I could make some of it stay. When you're grown up, you'll remember this. And you'll remember how you told yourself to remember.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Game
  • Sadness
  • Escape

• We Paverment were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Singing
  • Notes
  • Pavement

• I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.

  

  Moira Kelly
  • College
  • Struggle
  • Pavement

• In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

  

  Willis R. Whitney
  • Knowledge
  • Civilization
  • Eternity

• Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Brilliance
  • Pavement

• Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow

  

  Ricardo Montalban
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Standing

• I felt that in me fear could not put down roots, and even the lava, the fiery stream of melting matter that I imagined inside the earthly globe, and the fear it provoked in me, settled in my mind in orderly sentences, in harmonious images, became a pavement of black stones like the streets of Naples, a pavement where I was always and no matter what the center.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Imagined
  • Stream
  • Lava

• 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.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Guitar
  • Pavement
  • Elvis Presley

• Even though I never really had to pound the pavement as an actor, I always worked really hard. But, at the same time, I always felt like people thought that I didn't have to struggle even though I was struggling.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Actor
  • Pavement

• Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Grace
  • Failures
  • Determines