Kate McKinnon

I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.

American Actress

Greil Marcus

My ideal reader is somebody who trips over a copy of my book on the sidewalk; then they pick it up and read as they walk. Somebody who comes in knowing nothing, caring nothing, but responds to the story.

American Author

Marcia Clark

I was famous in a way that was kind of terrifying. I had no protection. When reporters showed up at my house, there wasn't even a sidewalk. They were literally parked on my front lawn.

American Lawyer

Josie Totah

I'm a pretty fearless person. I'm afraid of, like, creepy men in white vans and sidewalks with no streetlights. But I'm not afraid to go in front of someone and twerk on them.

Michael Zaslow

People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.

American Actor

Jack Kerouac

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

American Novelist

Louise Erdrich

I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips.

American Writer

Mike Barnicle

Philadelphia is a town where even the sidewalks seem to sweat.

American Journalist

Marion Barry

I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.

American Politician

Josh Homme

American Musician

Sidewalks are common in cities and towns but less so in rural areas.

Urban Areas

Sidewalks provide a safe space separating pedestrians from vehicles.

Safety Zone

Sidewalks are public property, often maintained by local governments.

Public Space

 If you're crossing the street, you have sidewalk cutouts. And if you have to travel some distance farther than you can do under your own power, there's accessible vehicles, and if you can't afford one of those, there's accessible public transportation. But in the developing world, things are quite different.

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 it's in engineering right now -- is turning an all four-lane system, half one-way into an all two-lane system, all two-way, and in so doing, we're adding 70 percent more on-street parking, which the merchants love, and it protects the sidewalk. That parking makes the sidewalk safe,

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 little icon to each one first way stay in your imaginary lane stay with me stay and your imaginary lane really important have you ever walked behind a group of really slow people on the sidewalk oh my goodness right and you can't get around them well if the group of slow people

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 appears to be something else entirely. All over the planet, you can find solid surfaces giving way to strange, wonderful, or terrifying visions. From your sidewalk to your computer screen, these are just some of the ways that math and perspective can open up whole new worlds.

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 in fact, this pattern of building downtown blocks, all over the world, is fairly universal. It's not that buildings more than one story high, built out to the sidewalk edge, so that people who are, you know, all kinds of people can get into the building.

James Kunstler: How bad...

 Whether or not you believe in them, you're probably familiar with a few of these superstitions. So how did it happen that people all over the world knock on wood, or avoid stepping on sidewalk cracks? Well, although they have no basis in science,

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 are third-class citizens while those who go in cars are first-class citizens. In terms of transport infrastructure, what really makes a difference between advanced and backward cities is not highways or subways but quality sidewalks.

Enrique Peñalosa: Why...

 they're the bowels of one of the world's largest and most polluted cities where disease runs rampant and the stench is sickening human excrement toxic waste rotting cadavers all flowing right beneath the sidewalk the sewers of

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 the comments under their breath. Some people refused to shake my hand. Some people moved to the other side of the sidewalk, moved to the other side of the elevator. I felt like they were moving to the other side of life.