Pavement Quotes - Page 7

• What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Lying, Eye, Men

  "Blue Highways". Book by William Least Heat-Moon, 1982.

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• All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

  Jeremy Piven

  Done, Los Angeles, Early 20s

  "If there's one thing I'm prepared for, it's rejection". Interview with Andrew Gumbel, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2009.

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• The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. [...] The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain.

  Ray Bradbury

  Girl, Rain, Moving

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Jan 27, 2016

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

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hops

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• Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting "Gotcha". It wouldn't have made any difference if they hadn't eaten it.' 'Why not?' 'Because if you're dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality which likes leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know perfectly well they won't give up. They'll get you in the end.

  Douglas Adams

  Giving Up, Garden, Apples

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• Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

  Julie Andrews

  Sky, Shoes, People

  Julie Andrews (1974). “Julie Andrews”

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• Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Feet, Illusion

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.396, Faber & Faber

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• And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot briskly and my arms to pump up and down like pistons, but I force myself to stroll past the stalls and pavement cafes. To enjoy just being somewhere, rather than rushing from somewhere, to somewhere. Inhaling deep lungfuls of air, instead of my usual shallow breaths. I take a moment to just stop and look around me. And smile to myself. For the first time in a long time, I can, quite literally, smell the coffee.

  Alexandra Potter

  Coffee, Home, Past

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