Quotes About Urban

New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.

There's more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

Manila is like a small New York. Nothing works, and everybody's out to get the better of you.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.

New York - I'm connected. This is my core. I feel like if I'm not connected to New York, then I don't even know what to do with myself.

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

The first time I went to New York, it was really exciting, and I thought, given half the chance, it would be nice to live there - the same with London.

I like that New York sensibility where you can be edgy, but still super-glamorous.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

New York vintage is too expensive!

When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

There is hardly a place in New York that you can't walk a block and a half and get a cup of coffee. Believe me, I've been all over the world. There's no place like that but New York City.

I think L.A. is underrated, and I love L.A., and I was born in California. But I'm pretty sure New York is the best city in the world - at least for an American guy like me.

It's very strange to go to cities like London and New York. People walk so quickly, they seem to be in a hurry all the time. And you don't say 'Hi' to everyone you meet, and you don't smile to everyone you meet, because there's just so many. Which is also very strange.

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

What I like about New York City is nobody cares. If they do, they don't ever approach. They just give you a 'What's up?' and that's it.

I love New York: it reminds me a bit of London.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Neighborhoods change. In some ways, it's part of the beauty of New York City. It's in a constant state of flux.

I think there are two cities in the world - New York and Rome.