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Pedestrian accessibility is the key. -- Kim Delaney
Pedestrian's rights - because we live in California, I've got to address this issue. I don't know where on the fence I am about that. I suppose if I'm walking, I'm all for it, but if I'm driving, that's a whole other can of worms. -- Janeane Garofalo
People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant. -- Rick Bragg
The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian. -- Edmund White
The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days. -- Richard Morris
On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town. -- David Byrne
Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the time. -- Nicole Ari Parker
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary. -- Tom Waits
God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction. -- Harold Brodkey
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
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
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
All of my activities are so pedestrian. The extreme sport I play is ping pong. And we play it hard. If any of you suckers want to step up to the table, be ready. -- Seth Green
It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think. -- Stone Gossard
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge. -- Bernie Taupin
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
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
What is this', and 'How is this done?' are the first two questions to ask of any work of art. The second question immediately illuminates the first, but it often doesn't get asked. Perhaps it sounds too technical. Perhaps it sounds pedestrian. -- James Fenton
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
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian. -- Frank Herbert
At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections. -- Moby
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
A pedestrian hit me and went under my car. -- Abraham Maslow
Great marketing cannot sell a pedestrian product very well. -- John Sculley
There is no pedestrian culture [in South Central Los Angeles]. -- Kehinde Wiley
A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A collison is what happens when two motorists go after the same pedestrian. -- Bob Newhart
Watch out for that pedestrian!" "It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking! -- Neil Gaiman
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I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it's kind of depressing. -- Bill Watterson
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day. -- Brendan Behan
It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business -- David Ogilvy
A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul. -- David McCord
New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. -- Russell Baker
These Seattle Seahawks wide receivers have been called pedestrian, they've been called no-namers, but they always come up with the big play. -- Nate Burleson
Your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of pop nihilism. -- Rob Brezsny
Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian. -- Gregory Mcdonald
You know, the fact that every morning you get a script in your mailbox, that's going to stop. All these little pedestrian, mundane things. And the cash. -- Paul Reiser
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The things I care about are the most pedestrian things in the world. I care about good ice cream and being a good dad and a decent husband. -- Michael Ian Black
What happened to the tradition of walking to school? The simple answer is change. Change in traffic patterns and street planning that have made school routes less pedestrian-friendly. -- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
To dismiss basic contexts such as link colours, page layouts, navigation systems, and visual hierarchy as 'boring' or 'pedestrian' is akin to laughing at a car's steering wheel as unimaginative. -- Jeffrey Veen
We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end. --
I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that? -- Jimmy Buffett
To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can carry it without overstrain, is really a fine art. -- Horace Kephart
Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top. -- Camille Paglia
I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense. -- Claire Messud
The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile.' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and think about shooting myself in the head. -- David Sedaris

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