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# Weekend Words: Walk
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-walk/
- Published: 2014-08-10T12:20:41.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:33:02.000Z
- Description: This week, the Guardian reported that Dallas, which “shares with Detroit the honor of being one of the two most car-dependent major metropolitan areas in the US” may be losing its affection for the automobile.
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Opinion, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

![walk](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/08/walk.jpg)

Thomas Gainsborough, “Mr and Mrs William Hallett (‘The Morning Walk’)” (1785), oil on canvas, 236 x 179 cm (National Gallery, London) (image via Web Gallery of Art)

This week, the *Guardian* [reported ](http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/aug/05/dallas-addiction-cars-texas-city-walk?ref=hyperallergic.com)that Dallas, which “shares with Detroit the honor of being one of the two most car-dependent major metropolitan areas in the US” may be losing its affection for the automobile.

Bike sharing and a new bullet train have recently been introduced, and the value of real estate “in even semi-walkable Dallas areas is shooting through the roof, suggesting severe pent-up demand for places where you can actually, you know, walk.”

> “I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.”  
>  
> **—Emily Bronte**

> “I just can’t get over losin’ you  
> And so if I seem, broken and blue  
> Walk on by, walk on by  
>  
> Foolish pride, that’s all that I have left  
> So let me hide the tears and the sadness you gave me  
> When you said goodbye, you said good bye  
>  
> So walk on by”  
>  
> **—Burt Bacharach and Hal David**

> “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”  
>  
> **—Edna St. Vincent Millay**

> “It seems that it is madder never to abandon one’s self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.”  
>  
> **—Margaret Fuller**

> “A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted — in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest — at the command — of his head.”  
>  
> **—Franklin D. Roosevelt**

> “I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.”  
>  
> **—Josephine Baker**

> “An active line on a walk, moving freely without a goal. A walk for a walk’s sake. The agent is a point that shifts position.”  
>  
> **—Paul Klee, *Pedagogical Sketchbook***

> “Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.”  
>  
> **—Cyril Connolly, *Unquiet Grave***

> “We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.”  
>  
> **—Phyllis Diller**

> “Little Joe never once gave it away  
> Everybody had to pay and pay  
> A hustle here and a hustle there  
> New York City’s the place  
> Where they said, “Hey, babe,  
> Take a walk on the wild side.”  
> I said, “Hey, Joe,  
> Take a walk on the wild side.”  
>  
> **—Lou Reed**

> “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”  
>  
> **—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe**