Walking sayings
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- Jarod Kintz99◆ Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
- Steven Wright99◆ Home is everything you can walk to.
- Jerry Spinelli99◆ Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.
- Jane Austen99◆ I like long walks, especialy when they are taken by people who annoy me.
- No?l Coward99◆ When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.
- Jim Butcher99◆ For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.
- Rebecca Solnit99◆ But the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by destinations.
- Gwyn Thomas99◆ There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.
- Wendell Berry99◆ You know, poets and songwriters have long known that people like repetition. You know, poets and songwriters have long known that people like repetition. I guess when I say people, I mean everyone but my Grandfather. He hated anything that was so monotonous as repetition. That's why he loathed walking so much. Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot, and on and on.
- Jarod Kintz99◆ Two one-armed people might seem perfect for each other, but what if they're both missing the same arm? Then even something simple like holding hands while walking becomes a case of they're too similar to see themselves really going anywhere as a couple.?
- Jarod Kintz99◆ A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.
- Rebecca Solnit99◆ Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.
- Rebecca Solnit99◆ To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. The moving about that the city mutliplies and concentrates makes the city itself an immense social experience of lacking a place -- an experience that is, to be sure, broken up into countless tiny deportations (displacements and walks), compensated for by the relationships and intersections of these exoduses that intertwine and create an urban fabric, and placed under the sign of what ought to be, ultimately, the place but is only a name, the City...a universe of rented spaces haunted by a nowhere or by dreamed-of places.
- Michel de Certeau99◆ Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.
- Rebecca Solnit99
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