Quotes About Urban

My spiritual practice reminds me of what's really real, what's really hood.

I split my time between a small town in New Jersey and New York City.

'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.

I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.

Life begins to happen. My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes, and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.

in the background she can hear the shopping carts performing their clashy, anal copulations.

Get the bicycles.

At this point, Mrs. Disher stepped in to say, if you thought that was scary, look at how poor people lived in the late twentieth century. Indeed, after ractives told them about the life of an inner-city Washington, D.C., child during the 1990s, most students had to agree they'd take a workhouse in pre-Victorian England over that any day.

I had to ride my bike to and from their god damn plant way up north in the high-chemical crime district, and reachable only by riding on the shoulder of some major freeways. I could feel the years ticking off my life expectancy as the mile markers struggled by.

and he had a Boston accent that could scrape the rust from a manhole cover.

A major street intersects, at something other than a ninety-degree angle, a smaller commercial street, defining two (smaller) acute-angle lots and two (larger) obtuse-angle lots. On one side of the major street, the obtuse-angle lot is occupied by a two-storey office building

All the Chinese people Richard had ever met had been sophisticated urbanites, so he had been half expecting that he would end up carrying the girl Yuxia on his back. But it became clear almost immediately that she was half mountain goat, or whatever the Chinese equivalent of a mountain goat was.

Occasionally a red taxi or Mercedes-Benz would squeeze by along the iron fence and burst free, the driver holding down the horn button so furiously that he might detonate the air bag.

For they'd come out into the hurricane where Threadneedle, Cornhill, Poultry, and Lombard all collided.

Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one.

RESPECT THE PEDESTRIAN, say the street signs of Metro Manila. As soon as Randy saw those he knew that he was in trouble.

Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.