Quotes About Urban

I'm not a good tourist. I don't like walking around and looking at things. I like being in a city and working and finding out how other people live.

I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.

I would leave school every day and walk to my grandparents' house under the El because everyone worked. I was 6 and walking home alone from school. It was a different city and a different time.

I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.

I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.

They say that no one walks in L.A., and it's definitely true, and I'm embracing that.

The son of a Fife mining town sledder of coal-bings, bottle-forager, and picture-house troglodyte, I was decidedly urban and knew little about native fauna, other than the handful of birds I saw on trips to the beach or Sunday walks.

Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light.

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

I run everywhere and eavesdrop. It's the best way to see a city.

There are so many things to do in New York. I try to get to the theater and see some plays. I have a bicycle over here, and I ride around New York.

I ride a bicycle daily in London and have done for many years.

I'm trying to express nature in big cities.

In big cities, things go by too fast.

I think, a lot of times in a big city, you're working even when you're not.

One thing I do like about L.A. is the fact that you can be - whether you're famous or it's just a matter of, like, seeing people you know all the time on the street, you can be pretty anonymous and walk around and, like, not run into people, because it's such a big city and because a lot of people drive.

I love Chicago. I love the big city. But, remember, I come from a town, Lovington, N.M., that only has 8,000 people.

While I was in Chicago, I rode my bike everywhere.

I am on my bike daily, and most of the locations, warehouses and specific residences from 'The Cut' were found while I was riding.

I can't support bike lanes.

That's bizarre to see, L.A., downtown, and to feel like you're the only person there.

If you cut me open I bleed East London.

The single 'Tha Block Is Hot' was a song that was true to life.

I don't know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can't see it.