Pavement Quotes

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

  Evel Knievel

  Mph, Suits, Ripped

  Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.

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• Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.

  Wendell Berry

  Dream, Dirt, Grass

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• The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

  E. W. Howe

  Fall, People, Icy

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• 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.

  Mark E. Smith

  Fall, Ideas, Listening

  "20 Years On: Revisiting Pavement's Slanted And Enchanted" by Jim Keoghan, thequietus.com. April 27, 2012.

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• It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places.

  Richard Benjamin

  Missing You, New York, Moving

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• President Obama has expressed his commitment to responsible stewardship of our land, water, and other natural resources. And one way of restoring the land to its natural condition is what we are doing here today - breaking pavement for the People's Garden.

  Tom Vilsack

  Commitment, Garden, Land

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• People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Cities, People, Feels

  "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 8, 2015.

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• 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

  Redneck, Mph, Guitar

  Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.

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• Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement.

  Josie Maran

  Challenges, Trying, Notorious

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• Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.

  John Milton

  Heaven, Vision, Gold

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 678

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• 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.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Country, Feet, Retiring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

  Patrick Carney

  Real, Captains, Explosions

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• The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People might walk through me. And what is this moment of time, this particular day in which I have found myself caught? The growl of traffic might be any uproar - forest trees or the roar of wild beasts. Time has whizzed back an inch or two on its reel; our short progress has been cancelled. I think also that our bodies are in truth naked. We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Thinking, Two

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.691, Wordsworth Editions

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• You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.

  Adam Rapp

  Running, Sky, Forever

  Adam Rapp (2011). “33 Snowfish”, p.45, Candlewick Press

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

  Bob Goff

  Grace, Potholes, Ability

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Jun 21, 2013

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• I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Punctuation Marks, Vision, Found

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• Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

  T. S. Eliot

  Hair, Sunlight

  "La Figlia Che Piange" l. 3 (1917)

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• For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Work, Together

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

  William Butler Yeats

  Doe, Lines, Moments

  In the Seven Woods (1903) "Adam's Curse"

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• The foot that is familiar with the grass belongs usually to a man of lighter heart than he whose soles seldom wander from the pavement; and the best elixir vitæ is a run, as often as we can contrive it, amid the sweets of new and lovely scenery, where nature sits, fresh from the hand of the Creator, almost chiding us for our delay.

  Leopold Hartley Grindon

  Running, Sweet, Heart

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

  Leon Trotsky

  Politician, Fascists, Fascism

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• "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Mean, Sarcasm

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.195, Race Point Publishing

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• 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.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mean, Kissing, Southern

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.32, Penguin

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• And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped in India. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

  Virginia Woolf

  Horse, Men, Hair

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.779, Wordsworth Editions

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• The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.

  Wendell Berry

  Dream, Soil, Forests

  Wendell Berry (2006). “Given: Poems”, p.4, Counterpoint

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