“The line changed my life 'cause I thought of some poor woman I hadn't even met walking around the United States or the world not knowing she's going to be beaten up by me and these kids, unborn, not knowing they were going to be born into the family of a child-beater just because I was. So it really did have a great effect on me.” WorldChildrenStatesKidsCausesBornLinesPoorUnitedUnited StatesKnowingEffectsChangedWalkingMetsNot KnowingBeatenUnbornChanged My Life Author:Terry Gross
“I've been walking to school and trying to figure out what's going on there; some of the production and songs are so ridiculous. I want to get inside that.” WantTryingSchoolSongFiguresWalkingProductionsRidiculous Author:Mike Tucker
“I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.” ProblemGirlBoysStreetsWalkingHeavySkinnyBoyish Author:Angelina Jolie
“I hung out with some crazy desert people. One guy was just walking around with only shorts on - he'd been walking with bare feet for the last two years. He was totally scarred and eating on all fours like a dog.” PeopleYearsTwoLastsGuyFeetCrazyDogWalkingEatingDesertTwo YearsHungShortsBare FeetFours Author:Lykke Li
“I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.” ThinkingKindStreetsSeriousWalkingPlaying MusicFiddle Author:Frank Fairfield
“When I'm walking with my father through the woods, and we reach a place where you see so far that your ego suddenly shrinks because you are so touched by the dimension of your surroundings.” FatherWalkingEgoWoodsDimensionsTouchedSurroundingsShrinks Author:Volker Bertelmann
“It just seemed like there were loads of bands in England writing about walking down the street and falling in love.” WritingFallStreetsWalkingBandEnglandFalling In LoveLoad Author:Simon Taylor-Davis
“When I was writing some of songs for the record in Galapagos it was the feeling of being there I wanted to evoke more than anything. I remember hearing all the parts of the songs in my mind when I was walking around over the lava fields.” WritingMindFeelingsWantedRememberSongRecordsFieldsWalkingHearingBeing ThereEvokeLava Author:Jonathan Meiburg
“The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that writers should provide an example of how to live. Virginia Woolf ended her life by putting a rock in her sweater one day and walking into a lake. She is not a model of how I want to live my life. On the other hand, the bravery of her syntax, of her sentences, written during her deepest depression, is a kind of example for me. But I do not want to become Virginia Woolf. That is not why I read her.” WantShouldKindHandsCommunityWrittenRocksExampleWalkingOne DayModelsBraveryNotionSentencesLakesLiving My LifeVirginiaSampleSweatersSyntaxSociologicalWoolf Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Catcalling is pretty much never going to work. Like anytime a guy's like, "Hey girl! Can we friends?" It's like, I don't know you. I'm just walking by right now, and that's weird. No relationship has ever started from a catcall.” KnowsGuyGirlWalkingRight NowHeyGoing To Work Author:Carly Aquilino
“Black-ish is really a show about an American family and these are some of the topics that come up - for all of us, in different ways - and we get to see how this family is walking through it.” WayDifferentShowsBlackWalkingCome UpDifferent WaysTopicsAmerican Family Author:Tracee Ellis Ross
“There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other words, you were not walking before you were born and you were not doing X and Y before you did something else first. So there's a sequencing of events that imposes a certain structure to the story.” FirstsStoriesCertainBornOur LivesEventsWalkingAspectStructureSequenceSequencingSequence Of Events Author:Antonio Damasio
“The Internet is the new public space. And because women are out in public, people don't like that in much the same way that if you're walking down the street you get harassed. I think the same kind of thing happens online, and I think that's why a lot of women are hesitant to put their voice out there.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayKindHappensVoiceSpaceStreetsInternetWalkingThings HappenOnlineHesitant Author:Jessica Valenti
“I don't split poles. When I'm walking with my friends by lampposts, we all walk on the same side. And I won't cross over your legs. If you're sitting down and like chilling on the floor, I won't walk over your legs because then you'll go to jail.” IfsSidesWalksWalkingSittingMy FriendsCrossesDown AndLegsOver YouJailSplitsChillSitting Down Author:Curren$y
“I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and I imagine walking around Paris with Cesar Vallejo, a great Peruvian poet who lived in Paris. And I kind of create the walk as a kind of drama of my apprenticeship.” KindSidesWalksImaginePoetWalkingDramaWestParisNeighborhoodManhattanApprenticeshipWest SideLorcaPeruvians Author:Edward Hirsch
“Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, 'Well, I'm tired of climbing this hill. I'm never going to get to the top.' And you're only two steps from the top.” KnowsWellsTwoStepsWalkingTiredHillsClimbingI'm Tired Author:Morgan Freeman
“We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.” StepsWalkingSittingOver ItPavement Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“So he [Sigmund Freud] called this "the uncanny" and he also referred to cities as well, like the idea of walking through the city and the way the urban landscape could lead you to a sense of disorientation and to a kind of, you know, sense of repetition. And the way a city can unfold as you walk.” KnowsWayWellsKindIdeasWalksCitiesWalkingLandscapeUrbanRepetitionUncannyDisorientationUrban Landscape Author:DJ Spooky
“The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets of New York. We were talking about our mothers, and I was telling her how old my mother was, and she was telling me about her mother. Her mother was Jewish, and she said that she was in a retirement home and that she had had a friend for 40 years that was a Japanese gardener. This person had been very important in my friend's upbringing.” YearsPersonsSaidImportantBookIdeasHomeMotherTalkingStreetsNew YorkLoversWalkingConversationMy FriendsRetirementGardenerUpbringingRetirement Homes Author:Isabel Allende
“Prior to the early 20th century, for the totality of humankind's existence if they saw something moving, it meant it was there. If they saw a tiger walking, that meant they were near a live tiger. This was entrenched in our subconscious and our unconscious.Then that drastically changed with film and television.” IfsFilmMovingExistenceSawsCenturyChangedTelevisionWalkingUnconsciousHumankindSubconsciousTigers20th CenturyTotalityFilm And Television Author:Chuck Klosterman
“The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how we've been robbed of our names in slavery.We were robbed of our culture, we were robbed of our true history. So it left us a walking dead man.” PeopleMenHas BeensHateCultureNamesLeftBlackWhiteTeachingTaughtWalkingSlaveryBlack PeopleMuhammadDead ManBrainwashedElijahWalking DeadElijah Muhammad Author:Muhammad Ali
“I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out.” ChildrenAmericaBlackWhiteProudCoupleWalkingEnglandBlack And WhiteGoing Out Author:Muhammad Ali
“There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and there's a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.” NeedsDoneDifferencesWalksTalkingWalking Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated and riots broke out in the city. We celebrated Palm Sunday on 14th Street. I have a memory of walking down the street with buildings smoldering, and soldiers and cops everywhere. Anyways, it [St. Stephen’s] was a church that really taught me the things I needed to learn to not go to church. But I think it is a church that does great work, I went to a wedding there three days ago.” ThinkingDoeRememberThreeChurchMemoriesCitiesStreetsBuildingTaughtKingsNeededWalkingSoldierBrokeSundayCopPalmsRemember WhenGreat WorkLutherRiotPalm Sunday Author:Ian MacKaye
“People ask, why hasn't that person busted out? Almost always, at the end of it, consciously or subconsciously, it hasn't happened because that person has chosen for it to not happen. Either walking away, because it wasn't the life they wanted, or through self-sabotaging.” PeoplePersonsEndsSelfHappensWantedAsksHappenedWalkingChosenWalking AwayBusted Author:Chris Gethard
“It didn't seem to have relevance, except in Central America or South America, countries where the church was connected to the fight of the people for economic justice. That's why it was so interesting to find myself back with Sister Helen [in Dead Man Walking], this new breed of nuns who were making a difference in the community.” PeopleMenCountrySeemsAmericaFightingCommunityDifferencesChurchJusticeInterestingEconomicWalkingSouthConnectedMaking A DifferenceRelevanceNunDead ManSouth AmericaHelenEconomic JusticeCentral America Author:Susan Sarandon
“If you're Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya, if you're in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, you don't get out of your vehicle and go walking around amid the lions and the leopards. You stay in your Land Rover. You stay in your safari van, and you look out the windows or you look out the pop top at these animals. I know by experience how badly that can work out if you violate those guidelines.” IfsKnowsLooksAnimalLandWalkingWindowWork OutPopsParksOver YouLionsVehicleVansKenyaNational ParksGuidelinesLeopardsTanzaniaSafariMaasai Author:David Quammen
“I don't tan on my upper thighs, so when I first wore those [ cut-off jean short shorts] I look like I was walking on two cans of milk.” FirstsLooksTwoCuttingWalkingMilkThighsShortsShort Shorts Author:Blake Jenner
“I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!” ReadingWalkingTheaterDancingMovie LoveBikingKayaking Author:Judy Blume
“A few years ago I appeared on GLEE and, Jane Lynch and I did a remake of the song that was very popular - someone told me it was in the Top 100 when it was released. First, walking on the set of GLEE the day we filmed it was surreal as they had recreated the entire original set from the music video. It was bizarre - but fun.” YearsFirstsSongFunWalkingYears AgoOriginalsVideoBizarreJaneSurrealRemakesGleeVery PopularTop 100 Author:Olivia Newton-John
“I even used to stop vehicles going through stop signs, even though I was walking.” UsedWalkingVehicle Author:Joe Arpaio
“I'm also not an avid watcher of the show ['Walking Dead'] for no good reason. I think it's obviously a great show. I think it's a good comparison [to "Zoo"], because it is this apocalyptic world we're living in Season 2 of "Zoo."” ThinkingWorldReasonShowsWalkingSeasonsComparisonZoosApocalypticWatchersAvidWalking Dead Author:James Wolk
“For example, you go to Fuji, and there are no animal attacks. Why? And I think that gets you into the world of "The Walking Dead" or "Lost." Humans start doing some weird stuff.” ThinkingWorldHumansLostStuffAnimalExampleWalkingWalking DeadWeird Stuff Author:James Patterson
“I saw the first episode of "The Walking Dead," and that's all I've seen. I thought it was good. I used to love zombies when I was little, but I don't like them the way I used to. I'm not knocking the show.” WayFirstsLittlesShowsUsedSawsWalkingEpisodesZombieKnockingUsed To LoveWalking Dead Author:James Patterson
“Just walking in the kitchen (and we have three kitchens at Le Bernardin), I exercise quite a lot. I also walk in Central Park for 50 minutes from my house to Le Bernardin every day, rain, shine, snow.” ThreeHouseWalksMinutesWalkingExerciseRainShiningSnowKitchenParksCentral Park Author:Eric Ripert
“For many people, the mortgages they took out before 2008 are so high that they would be better off walking away from their houses. That is called "jingle mail," returning the keys to the bank and saying, "You can have the house. I can buy the house next door that's just like this for 20% less, so I'm going to save money and switch." That's what someone like Donald Trump or a real estate investor would do. But the banks are trying to convince the mortgage debtors, the homeowners, not to act in their own self-interest.” PeopleTryingI CanRealSelfWould BeNextHouseInterestDoorsKeysTrumpWalkingConvinceInvestorsMailEstatesBetter OffSelf InterestMortgageSaving MoneyWalking AwayDebtorsJinglesHomeowners Author:Michael Hudson
“I don't know whether we'll have another Michael Jackson or Elvis, because the world's too quick to level the playing field in that regard. For example, if Michael Jackson did the moonwalk for the first time now, and it debuted on Twitter, the third comment would probably be: "He's just walking backwards."” IfsKnowsWorldFirstsLevelsExampleFieldsWalkingFirst TimeThirdsRegardCommentBackwardsPlaying FieldsWalking Backwards Author:Matthew Healy
“When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving I jumped up and passed gas in my friend's face. I turned around and it wasn't my friend, it was this nice old lady who was just walking out of the store. That was probably one of the more awkward apologies I've had to make in my life.” FacesGrowing UpNiceGrowingWalkingMy FriendsLeavingStoresBunchGasApologyAwkwardOld LadyThriftSkateboardingWalking Out Author:Mark Hoppus
“Regarding some of the super powers that I reference, like walking on water, I haven't seen people do that, but once you get into the science, a lot of it starts to make a lot of sense, for example, like people being able to read your mind. It's very logical, because words are just a grosser form of thought, and thought is just a grosser form of feeling.” PeopleMindFeelingsAbleFormWaterHavensExampleWalkingLogicalSuper PowerWalking On Water Author:Karan Bajaj
“At this writing I can't even shut my lower jaw because of inadequate health care. I can't chew my food, I have trouble walking...the list goes on. But more than anything I want to go home. If you follow the laws at the time of my conviction I should have been released already.” IfsWantShouldWritingHas BeensI CanHomeCareLawTroubleGoes OnWalkingShould HaveConvictionListsHealth CareShould Have BeenInadequate Author:Leonard Peltier
“There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.” PeopleHardYoungPoorPathGroupsYouthHard WorkWalkingMembersAdversityObstaclesCuresPreparationMinoritiesMinority Groups Author:Barbara Jordan
“We need adventure, we need meaning, we need identity. We need love. Someone who has seen us through loving eyes has awakened us from the ranks of the formerly dead. Most people bear the terminal stress of walking the world unseen, a mere number or cog in a lifeless machine.” PeopleWorldNeedsEyeNumbersIdentityAdventureBearsWalkingMachinesStressMereUnseenLove SomeoneAwakenedLifelessTerminalNeed LoveCogsLoving Eyes Author:Marianne Williamson
“I love to work out. I need to work out! Nothing makes me feel better than walking out of a spin or barre class knowing my body and mind got some attention.” NeedsFeelsMindBodyAttentionClassKnowingWalkingWork OutFeel BetterMind And BodyWalking OutMake Me Feel Better Author:Tara Lipinski
“I guess the closest I came was doing chores around the house to earn pocket money. My brother and I would have to do the washing up, cleaning around the house, walking my grandparents' dog, lots of things. We didn't get a huge amount but it was always enough to be able to walk down to the local shops and get some sweets.” EnoughAbleHouseWalksDogSweetBrotherHugeAmountWalkingLocalsMy BrotherShopsPocketsClosestGrandparentCleaningWashingChores Author:Andy Murray
“The first important [step] one was going to school. There was an advantage as there was a one-room schoolhouse that was within walking distance of my home. I went there being very shy, but I fit in quickly, and I was nurtured by a very dedicated and caring teacher, Magdalen George, who we referred to as Miss George. She was my teacher for a full seven years.” YearsFirstsImportantHomeSchoolRoomsStepsTeacherMissingFitWalkingAdvantageDistanceSevenCaringShyDedicatedSeven Years Author:Paul Smith
“I developed friends in the community that were in walking distance or a bicycle ride away, so that I socialized and did a lot of things that children do in their early years.” YearsChildrenCommunityWalkingDistanceBicycle Author:Paul Smith
“When we practice paying attention, whether in meditation, yoga (moving mediation), or simply walking down the street, we can choose to be at ease, or choose to be tense. It's a choice, and that choice is up to no one but us to decide.” MovingChoicesAttentionPracticeMeditationStreetsWalkingYogaPay AttentionEaseTenseMediation Author:Tara Stiles
“Each full, deep inhale creates more space in your body and mind. Each long, exhale moves you directly into that space. The deeper you breathe, the more opens up. It's like opening a door and walking through with each breath. The fuller your breaths the more and more doors open on up, leaving you with the space to walk on in!” MindLongBodyMovingSpaceWalksDoorsWalkingBreathsLeavingDeeperBreatheYour BodyOpeningMind And BodyInhale Author:Tara Stiles
“I think it's so important to have a practice, because the consciousness isn't perfection or enlightenment or any of that bullshit. The consciousness is, "Oh, I'm walking down the street and I'm doing nothing."” ThinkingImportantConsciousnessPracticeStreetsWalkingEnlightenmentPerfectionBullshitDoing Nothing Author:Amanda Palmer
“I had a real come-to-Jesus a couple of years ago when I started to see the direct line between feminism and everything else - feminism and climate change, feminism and poverty, feminism and hunger - and it was almost like I was born again and started walking down the street and was like, "Oh, my God, there are women everywhere! They're just everywhere you look. There's women all over the place!"” YearsLooksRealJesusBornLinesPovertyFeminismStreetsCoupleWalkingYears AgoDirectClimateClimate ChangeHungerBorn Again Author:Amanda Palmer