Best Promenade Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We got to see a Corsair ship up close – all matt black, no markings, no lights – and practically invisible out here in the dark! What a sight to behold! Most people don’t get to see those bastards up close. That is, for very long! Anyways, the ship was just floating there, no sign of life. Our hails weren’t being answered, and so we assumed the ship was dead in space. Captain Mulligan, gods-rest-his-soul, told me to form a boarding party of security and medics from the sickbay and that we were going over there. We weren’t a military ship, and we’re not Star Marines, so we were lightly armed and quite nervous. I mean, this wasn’t just some of my security section being called out to break up a fight at one of the bars on the promenade, this was serious life-and-death shit! So I said ‘okay’, and told my assistant supervisor, Lisa Garfner, to get them all together. Seven of us shifted over to the other ship with the transmatter (you still use those things, I take it?) not knowing what to expect. It could’ve been anything… and it was. It was crazy.”

Source: Space Vacation

“Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.”

Loneliness Alone Brighton Promenade Mirabelle

Book:London Calling

Source: London Calling

“How many ghosts might return to the promenade, haunted by the echoes of those promises, perhaps eager to catch a glimpse of what could have been? Would they laugh at the survivors shuffling about in this briny detritus? Or would they cry?" Reid, A. J. (2012-11-08). A Smaller Hell (Kindle Locations 885-886). . Kindle Edition.”

Memories Ghosts Promises Promenade Seaside

Book:A Smaller Hell

Source: A Smaller Hell

“Emplir la liberté de quelque chose de vraiment libre n'est toutefois pas si simple. C'est beaucoup plus difficile que d'occuper son temps au maximum pour l'oublier. Je dispose d'une heure entière, mais voici ce qui cloche : je ne l'ai pas obtenue. Elle m'est imposée, comme une promenade dans une cour d'établissement pénitentiaire.”

Liberté Temps Promenade

Book:Protection rapprochée

Source: Protection rapprochée

“The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.”

Philosophy Wisdom Light Poetry Quotes Literature Teaching Books Poetry Quotes Poets Dejan Stojanovic Literature Quotes Festive The Sun Watches The Sun Promenade

Book:The Sun Watches the Sun

Source: The Sun Watches the Sun

“The promenade is a special subset of walking.”

Special Walking Promenade

Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement of the rectangular plates followed a strict logic in that the plates tilted away and towards the center line in an asymmetrical counterpoint. However, the perception of the sculpture contradicts the logic of its relation to the site. As you walk inbetween the plates you see fragments, you see the work in part, you cannot grasp the whole.”

Whole Lines Walks Perception Logic Relation Driven Related Internals Plates Site Strict Sculpture Fragments Measurement Axes Placement Promenade

Author:Richard Serra

“Coogee is a delightful, slightly old-fashioned suburb; it has parks and gardens and reserves, a good well-kept beach, and an excellent promenade above the beach. It is a suburb for people who appreciate those aspects of life.”

People Wells Aspect Garden Appreciate Beach Excellent Parks Reserves Delightful Old Fashioned Suburbs Aspects Of Life Promenade

Author:Richie Benaud

“The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order . . . Seventh Avenue was the gorge into which Harlem cliff dwellers crowded to promenade.”

Order All Things Cliffs Avenues Crowded Pilgrimage Fads Harlem Shrines Dwellers Gorges Promenade

Author:Wallace Thurman

“Toronto's likable, but it could be a lot more, as I think Montreal is, lovable. What we need more than anything, I think, is a great pedestrian promenade. Pick a busy streetscape, close it to cars forever, and it will fill with people enjoying nothing more than the pleasure of their own company.”

People Thinking Needs Enjoy Pleasure Company Forever Car Picks Busy Toronto Lovable Pedestrians Montreal Promenade

Author:Andy Barrie

“Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.”

Ifs Whole Cities Nice Wine Planning Excellent Girlfriend Spain Surroundings Honeymoon Good Wine Promenade

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.”

Morning Sun Kings Sitting Evening Thrones Noon Pageant Promenade

Book:Letters of Wallace Stevens

Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens

“When Švejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so angry when they're kept there. You can crawl naked on the floor, howl like a jackal, rage and bite. If anyone did this anywhere on the promenade people would be astonished, but there it's the most common or garden thing to do. There's a freedom there which not even Socialists have ever dreamed of.”

People Ifs Knows Would Be Term Common Garden Angry Rage Naked Things To Do Bites Lunatic Howl Asylums Jackals Lunatic Asylums Promenade

Book:The Good Soldier Svejk

Source: The Good Soldier Svejk

“If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.”

Ifs Ends Would Be Young Sex Yale Young Ladies Promenade

Author:Dorothy Parker

“Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?”

Whole Walks Existence Path Walking Blame Ashamed Blame Me Promenade

Author:Diogenes

“The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, rooflesswandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right towalk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. Thewalk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage ofthe feudal promenade in the nineteenth century.”

Way Humans Body Form Century Walking Normal Dignity Terror Passing Passings Command Flight Rhythm Spells Heritage Stem Bourgeois Nineteenth Century Human Dignity Breathless Pacing Promenade

Author:Theodor Adorno

“There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.”

Age Found Rooms Fire Saws Growing Youth Arms Mets Perfection Balls Lips Old Age Knees Holiness Chairs Grandchildren Seventies Seventeen Promenade

Book:Dreamthorp

Source: Dreamthorp

“Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.”

Walks Conscious Unconscious Arena Strolling Walking Meditation Promenade

Author:Mary Oliver

“But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”