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Walks Quotes - Page 4

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

John James Audubon (1996). “Selected Journals and Other Writings”, Penguin Group USA

A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.

"Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

William Makepeace Thackeray, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899). “The works of William Makepeace Thackeray”

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

"Captain Courageous: Tom Hanks and Capt. Richard Phillips". Interview with Katherine Heintzelman and Jennifer Rainey Marquez, parade.com. September 21, 2013.

Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears

Pauline Oliveros (1974). “Sonic meditations”

The beginning and the end of the tango is the walk.

"If You Hire Robert Duvall Not to Flinch, He Damn Well Won't Flinch". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. May 16, 2014.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Thomas De Quincey (1867). “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. And analects from John Paul Richter ... New edition”, p.23

You don't actually get over things… you incorporate them. They become part of everything you are. I don't mean that you walk about crying all the time. But you change.

Mark Matousek (2011). “When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living”, p.19, Bloomsbury Publishing USA