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Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. -- Lewis Mumford
Pedestrians never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars. -- Thomas Sowell
It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse. -- Terry Pratchett
My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. -- Terry Pratchett
A pedestrian hit me and went under my car. -- Abraham Maslow
Great marketing cannot sell a pedestrian product very well. -- John Sculley
There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead. -- Bill Vaughan
I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it's kind of depressing. -- Bill Watterson
New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. -- Russell Baker
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric. -- A.C. Grayling
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
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
God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy. -- Enrique Penalosa
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
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
Living would be a terribly pedestrian business without the impatient ones. The seekers. Always searching for something new, something relevant to leave their mark on. Always on tiptoe, anticipating discovery. Such people find change as necessary as the air they breathe. -- Helen Van Slyke
Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion. -- Rudolf Arnheim
When I arrive in Los Angeles in the entertainment community, and I use implements like a shovel and a hammer, our society has distanced itself so far from working with its hands that those incredibly pedestrian skills are perceived as somehow being extraordinary. -- Nick Offerman
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
I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces. They are all pedestrian-friendly with shops, entertainment, restaurants and pubs within easy walking distance. -- Norman Foster
Ah...so many pedestrians, so little time... -- Robin Williams
There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead. -- Bill Vaughan
Drivers tend to look for other drivers, rather than for pedestrians or cyclists. -- Robert James Thomson
In Minneapolis, the overhead sky walks protect pedestrians from the winter cold and snow. -- Bill Dedman
Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians. -- Alex Steffen
Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler. -- Bill Dedman
In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot. -- Bharati Mukherjee
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
Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being. -- Bill Bryson
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
You can make the assumption that most human drivers are not out to kill pedestrians. Well, maybe in some parts of Boston they are. But with a person at the wheel who you can see, you behave accordingly. With the robotic car, how do you know what assumption to make? -- Rodney Brooks
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
One morning every spring, for exactly two minutes, Israel comes to a stop. Pedestrians stand in place, drivers pull over to the side of the road, and nobody speaks, sings, eats, or drinks as the nation pays respect to the victims of the Nazi genocide. From the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea, the only sounds one hears are sirens. -- Michael Specter
Many pedestrians have been maimed or killed at the intersection of Resistance and Commerce. -- Steven Pressfield
Are we taking the drunken drivers off the road only to turn them into drunken pedestrians? -- Lawren Harris
The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. -- Mark Twain
That hedge provides almost complete privacy from cars and pedestrians, and I would bet he and his wife do it more than the national average. -- Cassandra Danz
My car would look better with a mustache for a bumper. Then pedestrians would know that I am a superior lover, just before I hit on them. -- Jarod Kintz
Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York. -- Fritz Leiber
You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks. -- Rachel Caine

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