Walking Quotes
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A very awkward situation occurs often in New York City when you are walking down a relatively empty sidewalk and there happens to be a person walking right next to you in the same direction as you at the exact same pace as you. I never know whether to pass or draft. It becomes sort of a strange competition.
Aaron Karo -
But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky is dull and a bequest of March - wind lingers, chasing the squirrel from the tree and the children from the meadows. There is a fascination in walking through these bare early woods, – there is such a pause of preparation, winter's work is so cleanly and thoroughly done. Everything is taken down and put away.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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I have not walked away from Hollywood. I'm walking away from the way I personally did business in Hollywood. The budget of whatever movie I do needs to be efficient; it needs to consider what kind of resources we're using and how to be as responsible as possible.
Tom Shadyac -
When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.
Sarah Dessen -
I don't go walking into things blind.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.
William Barnes -
Every person walking has some kind of talent that they can get on tape.
Dr. Dre -
I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.
Willem Dafoe
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Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.
Billy Collins -
I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling.
Richard Pryor -
You have a walking stick. Suppose it could walk by itself, and that it chose to walk away from you. ... It would no longer be a walking stick at all, only a stick that walked.
Gene Wolfe -
The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
Ajahn Chah -
We may finally ask ourselves whether coincidence really does exist. Maybe everybody we run into is walking around near us with the undying hope of meeting us? To think of it, it's a fact that they often seem out of breath.
David Foenkinos -
If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.
Ayumi Hamasaki
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It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry.
Sharon Horgan -
I enjoy walking by myself on the same paths where, as a little boy, I delighted in following my father around.
Jimmy Carter -
I prefer to take actors and put them in real settings and real locations and real situations rather than create artificial locations that serve the characters. It's just much easier when you are walking down the street with your actors to do that in a real street that's still open with people on it, rather than to close it off and bring in extras.
Michael Winterbottom -
There's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you're special.
Carol Rifka Brunt -
Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
Russell Baker
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A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter.
Morey Amsterdam -
These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don’t wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they’re not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.
Sherman Alexie -
My mother was so beautiful, she really was a a wonderful person. Always walking like a queen. Like she owned the world. Maybe I took something from her.
Sofia Villani Scicolone -
New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.
Roy Blount, Jr.