Top 163 Pavement Quotes & Sayings

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

When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.

We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.

Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

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

There's a theory of accidents that I studied when I was making a film about nuclear weapons: you can never eliminate accidents, because the measures you introduce to prevent accidents actually produce more accidents. That's certainly true of this sport; you're flying over 40 feet of what might look like snow, but it's hard as ice, it's as hard as pavement. You're doing acrobatic spins and tricks, 40 feet above pavement, essentially. There's been more accidents since, and there are going to continue to be more accidents, that's the nature of the sport.

I have no deep desire to hit the pavement and audition for TV projects or raise money to produce a show.

I love 'Wowee Zowee.' That was the first Pavement record I bought.

Controversy seems to be a by-product of what I do, rather like offence is the by-product of a dog urinating on the pavement. It just happens.

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.

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

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

Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.

With Pavement, we had no managers and never had a lawyer. We got lucky with not signing any bad deals.

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere?

I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.

Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

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.

Yes, you do need to be doing cardio to shed fat but no, you don't need to be going for hour long runs pounding pavement or hitting the treadmill every day.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

He's out of his depth on a wet pavement.

Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.

I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window. I could see myself lying on the pavement. Then I seemed to be standing by the body on the pavement. I was two people. Blood and brains were scattered everywhere. I knelt down and began licking up the blood and brains

2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall - and slumped limply on the pavement.

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

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.

He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.

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

'Summer Babe' is the start of Pavement front-loading their albums with the catchiest song first.

Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.

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

And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.

I started my company with no previous experience in jewelry, or business for that matter! I pounded the pavement, learned as I went, and I feel so lucky to have received mentorship from some truly remarkable people.

Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.

It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand

The overlap between Pavement's fan base and people who liked Silver Jews was total. In my mind, even a local band with 20 fans had more unqualified support.

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?

Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

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

Up against Goliath, to bring butter home. I'm David on pavement, sling another stone.

When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be

When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

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.

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

I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.

On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words.

Suppose I lay down on the pavement and you run over me a few times with my own car...just for old times.

Around '93, the radio started playing 'Loser' by Beck and 'Cut Your Hair' by Pavement, and then I got way into Pavement. That was kind of a gateway drug into indie rock. I got all their B-sides, and I got that 'Hey Drag City' comp, so I got into all those Drag City bands.

I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

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

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