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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. -- Patrick Carney
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
Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. -- Michael Eric Dyson
When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped. -- Evel Knievel
I love 'Wowee Zowee.' That was the first Pavement record I bought. -- Jenny Lewis
Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement -- Agatha Christie
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. -- E. W. Howe
Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement. -- Josie Maran
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
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
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
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
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
Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass. -- Wendell Berry
Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be. -- Bob Goff
There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements. -- Aldo Leopold
The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass. -- Wendell Berry
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
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
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
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
I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college. -- Moira Kelly
When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden. -- Keeley Hawes
I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement. -- Maggie Grace
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
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. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
Unlike running on a road or concrete, natural surfaces are more forgiving and offer a more varied terrain, ultimately resulting in less repetitive micro-trauma to bones and joints than running on hard pavement does. -- Dean Karnazes
In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement. -- Carey Mulligan
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. -- Gary Sinise
Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow. -- Ricardo Montalban
My varying pairs of legs can be quite practical or quite impractical, and I don't judge them either way. Some are for getting around a 12-hour day, pounding the pavement, and some are to feel like I can transform my own body into a workable, changing piece of art. -- Aimee Mullins
I don't really listen to the radio anymore, but some of the more contemporary people I like are Stereolab, Spiritualize, Yo La Tengo and Bedhead. There are other things too, like Pavement. They're a great band, with really good lyrics. But generally, I'm not overwhelmed by the state of indie-rock. -- Dean Wareham
It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people and then copy them. I found it really hard to walk straight. My brother was always on at me for walking off the pavement. I guess I always expected people to bring me back into line. -- Binyavanga Wainaina
Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal. -- Patricia Cornwell
He's out of his depth on a wet pavement. -- Terry Pratchett
Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass. -- George Gissing
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement. -- Leon Trotsky
Up against Goliath, to bring butter home. I'm David on pavement, sling another stone. -- Ka
We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps. -- Andy Goldsworthy
People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement. -- Andy Goldsworthy
It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted. -- Tupac Shakur
As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement. -- Mason Cooley
Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere? -- Adele
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government. -- Bob Dylan
On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words. -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal. -- Willis R. Whitney
Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement. -- Jonathan Lethem
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair. -- T. S. Eliot
He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman. -- Lewis Mumford
I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. -- Virginia Woolf
Nothing's gonna change the world, nothing's gonna change the world. There was Lennon and a happy gun, there were words on the pavement. -- Marilyn Manson
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
Suppose I lay down on the pavement and you run over me a few times with my own car...just for old times. -- Janet Evanovich
She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement. -- Francine Pascal
"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
Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement. -- Ann Patchett
The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement. -- Vera Caspary
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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
It's been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it's time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement. -- Steven Moffat
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. -- David Mitchell
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 -- D. H. Lawrence
Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended. -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Thomas Carlyle
I have often walked down this street before but the pavement never held my star before...all at once I'm three stories high, knowing I'm on the street where it lives. -- Bryan Cranston
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. -- Virginia Woolf
Me? You are laughing at me. Put your hand here. This has no theology.' I mocked myself while I made love. I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement. -- Graham Greene
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? -- E. L. Doctorow
Long strands of drool stretched from between his fangs and dripped on the pavement, sending a heady scent of jasmine to swirl through the air. Perfumed monster spit. What was the world coming to? -- Ilona Andrews
A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars. -- John Milton
When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed. -- Charlie Chaplin

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