Quotes About Urban

The day was cold but sunny. The city was decorated with holiday flags.

Every city has streets that were built under an unlucky star. And they don't have to be located in the outskirts, either. Sometimes they run along beside gloomy factory buildings, sometimes along the railway lines or main highways, sometimes even beside a park or ravine that has survived through some oversight by the municipal authorities.

I'd heard it said that "when a man is tired of moving, he moves to New York, and the movement comes to him.

There's something about the way blood tastes in New York City. It's unlike any blood anywhere else in the world.

Milano: ha i muri sporchi e le strade intasate, ma vale la pena. - Milán: tiene las paredes sucias y las calles abarrotadas, pero vale la pena.

The rig began shaking like caffeine withdrawal." --Opening sentence of THE FURY. "The duct-taped Buick swam north on Rush Street, hunting whores like a lesser white shark." --First sentence of Chapter One, THE FURY

When the cold winds come and find you Blowing down from the top of the high rise I'll come and take you back down to Soho Away from all those madmen's eyes

Something that's obvious to a lot of people but it's never said much on the television or anything, that the architects and planners and whatever in London are inhuman to a really disgusting extent.

Ik stak één straat eerder door naar 4th Avenue, omdat ik niet langs de kerk wilde lopen; er zat soms een stenen waterspuwer op die me de stuipen op het lijf joeg. Het was niet die waterspuwer zelf die ik eng vond, maar het was dat "soms" waar ik de zenuwen van kreeg. Waterspuwers zijn beeldhouwwerkjes, ze horen deel uit te maken van een gebouw. Als er een zit, hoort die daar altijd te zitten en niet af en toe.

Alcatraz Liquors is a small store where Sixth is intersected by

Some angels are like peacocks. Others are less flashy. Like city pigeons. It all depends on the wings.

Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the time.

Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time.

I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.

People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.

I've lived in New York for a really long time.

Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.

The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.

In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

Los Angeles is a great place. Where else can you smell the air and see it coming at you at the same time.

I'm jealous of that time when you could afford lofts and survive on almost nothing. You can't do that anymore.

I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City?