Quotes About Urban

I love Taxi Driver. When I saw it the first time, I didn't understand it, but I loved it because I thought the guy was really cool when he's talking to himself in the mirror.

The view out the window was too much—the whoosh through the tunnel, the bright subway ads flashing by, taunting her with offers for travel insurance, human-sized pictures of chocolate bars . . . all the flotsam and jetsam of life. Numbers and houses and futures and food. Why did all this stuff have to fly into her face? Who needed it all? Why go this fast?

There is a term for people caught on a street crossing after the light has changed: pedestrian-traffic residue.

Those poor bastards didn't want a rural life. They expected an urban life in a rural setting. They tried to adapt their environment instead of adapting to it.

The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grownup. Friendly but never gushing, cool but not frigid or distant, distinguished without the awful stiffness.

Lighting: a hundred Watts Detroit, Newark and New York Screeching nerves, exploding minds lives tied to a policeman's whistle a welfare worker's doorbell finger

If you think i'm letting little red riding hood go into the big bad woods of the east village by herself, you're nuts.'He took hold of my arm and swung me around. 'For one thing, I still owe you eternal servitude for saving my life, remember? And for another, the subway station's that way, stupid.Let's go.

He loves New York, he says. 'It's like Oberlin--it's where people who don't belong anywhere belong.

Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into cab, every runner along the river,every motorcycle coming and going.

New York est la ville où l'on se sent chez soi quand on est de nulle part.

Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.

It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when you meet in a crowded place. People can freely ignore you in the city; they can assume they don't have any responsibility for you. When there are fewer people, (...) they begin assuming some kind of responsibility, simply because you naturally do the same.

I will begin to remember our walk in the third person, as if I'd seen it from the Manhattan Bridge, but, at the time of writing, as I lean against the chain-link fence intended to stop jumpers, I am looking back at the totaled city in the second person plural. I know it's hard to understand / I am with you, and I know how it is.  

Everything's bigger better, or worse in London. That's just the way of it.

Arcades are altruism turned architecture – private property given to an entire community.

I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.

I live in the greatest city in the world for research.

I really resent how expensive everything is in London.

New York is about success. Boston is about resentment.

I think because I've maintained my residence in New York, those kinds of films have been more accessible.

Cities are important because that's where the majority of the world's population lives and an even bigger share of the global economy resides.

I've seen beautiful art on the sides of buildings. I've seen beautiful art in museums. I've seen beautiful art in galleries. Beautiful art is everywhere.

One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that.

You have to let folks know that it's not OK... to live on a sidewalk in front of somebody's house or in front of somebody's business if we have provided a safe, clean, sanitary place for you to go.