- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Walk Quotes
Every step says something.
These walk quotes range from literal strides through city streets under watchful cameras to the swagger of someone who owns a room the moment they enter it, alongside reflections on why some people can't walk away from work they love. Readers drawn to this theme often also browse our Life quotes for more on personal direction.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I literally couldn't walk down the street; I slept for 16 hours a day, was in chronic pain, had blackouts, never-ending heart palpitations, unbearable stomach issues, constant headaches - the list goes on.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I get on airplanes, very often, as I walk down the aisle, I notice a lot of people staring or whispering. I recognize the fact that yes, to a lot of people, I will always be that 14-year-old girl who was kidnapped and who was held captive.
- Bump
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know.
- Greenwich Village
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or the main character in 'American Psycho.' In 1993, every day was 'let's get lost.' I could walk Greenwich Village for hours and not be found.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's all really nice to have my pretend Secret Service people paying me respect, but the moment I walk in the door, it's back to being 'Mom.'
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had this temp receptionist job in New York, and I kind of hated it, and in the morning I would come out of the subway and just walk along the New York streets with all these people around me and kind of sing to myself. Like, 'She's gonna make it!'
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought that the fashion world could be a bit fake sometimes, but it's nothing compared to Hollywood. These girls would walk over their grandmothers' graves to get a part, and the producers talk about actresses like they're dirt, picking over every part of them so that they end up paranoid and having surgery.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architects typically inherit programmes or sites. We maybe twist the programme a little bit, bring our own invention into it, and we feel perfectly happy when we walk away. It doesn't feel like quite enough.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence against women is real and something I feel passionately about, and the gateway to all that is wolf whistling. It's allowing a man to impose his will on a woman who is just trying to walk down the street and live her life. It's all about unwanted versus wanted attention, and, of course, there's a fine line.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy the simplistic training and life in marathon. You run, eat, sleep, walk around - that's how life is. You don't get complicated. The moment you get complicated it distracts your mind.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you ever sit in Starbucks and watch people go by? Everyone has energy around them, and you can tell what kind of person they are just by the way they walk and talk.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I walk around haredi neighborhoods freely, and I actually receive a lot of positive responses from people.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020