Walking Fast Quotes:

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

- Eddie Cantor

topic: Life, Missing You, Work, Enjoy Your Life, Strolling

If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Thinking, Should, Walks, Walking Fast, Feet And Walking

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Walks, Inspirational Health And Fitness, Walking Fast

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast

- Paul Scott Mowrer

source: Paul Scott Mowrer (1945). “The House of Europe”

topic: Country, Taken, Pieces, Tempo, Walking Fast

Everybody has a camera on their phone these days, everybody wants a selfie or a picture, and the moment one person starts taking a picture everybody congregates around so I've become quite a fast walker. I don't like saying, "No," to people but by walking fast one might be able to avoid the first photo.

- Richard Branson

source: A Drink With Interview, adrinkwith.com. April 29, 2015.

topic: Phones, People, Cameras, Walking Fast

She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.13, Hamilton Books

topic: Giving, Steps, Speed, Walking Fast

One moves more slowly in heels. Walking fast is neither sexy nor engaging. Nobody notices the people who race around. If you're walking in heels, you've got time. It's much more attractive.

- Christian Louboutin

topic: Sexy, Moving, Race, Walking Fast

You can cry in public as long as you don not sob. Tears are transparent. If you’re walking fast, if the sun’s too strong, no one notices. Sobs intrude. They push their way into people’s consciousness. They feel duty-bound to ask what has happened.

- Jerry Pinto

topic: Strong, Long, People, Walking Fast, Transparent

Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way, through the crowd. And I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder... If I could fall, into the sky. do you think time, would pass me by? 'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles, if I could, just see you tonight.

- Vanessa Carlton

source: Song: A Thousand Miles, Album: Be Not Nobody

topic: Travel, Fall, Home, Walking Fast

After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

- Robin Sloan

topic: Lonely, Book, Dark, Walking Fast, Golden Light