29 Pedestrian Quotes for You to Enjoy

Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian. Anthony Foxx

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Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians. A. S. Byatt

Hate Car Wish Pedestrian Danger Would Cross Wing Mirrors Self-Righteous Were Snap Off Trying Front Realise Them Really Cyclists

Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians. Alex Steffen

Job Pedestrian Focused Remarkable Done Creating Copenhagen Streets

In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot. Bharati Mukherjee

Consequences Pedestrian India Drivers Spot Real Who Jeopardize

In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority. Bjarke Ingels

Commitment Car Pedestrian City Long-Term Equal Priority Movement Where Forms Public Creating Transportation Copenhagen

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo. Derek Walcott

When you're walking around in Shanghai, I called it the City of Near Misses, because they do not stop for pedestrians. And the pedestrians do not have the right of way. It's those little things that no one tells you. Eliza Coupe

You Little Things Pedestrian Way Those Tells City Shanghai No-One Misses Because Around Walking Stop Little Near Right Things

In the '70s, there were economists who argued that seat belts were causing people to drive faster and kill more pedestrians. But after 15 or 20 years of research, we can now conclude that's actually not true. Seat belts, on net, do make people safer. So, on an evidence-based process, we should have people wear seat belts. Greg Ip

People Drive Research Faster Pedestrian Wear Net More Argued True Economists Make Safer Conclude Causing Were Years After Process Should Who Now Seat Actually Belts

Parallel parking is desirable for two reasons: parked cars create a physical barrier and psychological buffer that protects pedestrians on the sidewalk from moving vehicles; and a rich supply of parallel parking can eliminate the need for parking lots, which are extremely destructive of the civic fabric. James Howard Kunstler

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I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian. James Laughlin

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering. Jeffrey Kluger

Suffering People Fear Better Cause Reward Gun Pedestrian Randomness Possible Some About Rational Cab Between Most Least Effect Tragedy Jumps Curb Hits Taxi Incident Injury

Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires. Jules Verne

Better Gun Pedestrian Back Rank Indian Simplest Prince Stick His Hand Than Which Far Ceremonial Shoulder Requires Travelling

When a driverless car looks out on the world, it's not able to distinguish the age of a pedestrian or the number of occupants in a car. Karl Iagnemma

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I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously. Kate Christensen

Writing Envy Stage Pedestrian Pants Kicks Rather Computer Had Occupation Around Tame Rock Always Leather Rock Star Huge Than Get Sitting Done Front Vicariously Unfortunately While Sweaty Star Pajamas

Comedy is so subjective. If you trip and fall down, some people will laugh, and some people will say, 'Oh, physical comedy is so pedestrian.' Some people look at Three Stooges as lowbrow; some people consider them artists. No one is wrong. It's just a personal take. Martin Short

You People Comedy Will Some People Three Fall Down Pedestrian Consider Say Laugh Physical Some Trip Physical Comedy Take No-One Wrong Look Subjective Personal Stooges Oh Just Artists Them

When George Hirsch ran the New York City Marathon in 1976, the first year the course snaked through all five boroughs, the event was a lean affair. He and two thousand others dodged wayward bicycles and pedestrians on the streets, with little help from an anemic police presence. Mary Pilon

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The whole of the 20th century has always put the car at the center. So by putting the pedestrian first, you create these livable places, I think, with more attraction and interest and character. Prince Charles

Character You Car First Think Pedestrian More Put Putting Attraction Always Center Interest Places Century Create Livable Whole

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant. Rick Bragg

People Think Pedestrian About Something Journalism Just Ignorant Who

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