Quotes About Urban

We lived in the projects in Brooklyn, the elevator used to be broken, and we used to walk up 20 flights of steps and then walk down.

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

Indeed, counterculture is so commercial and so business-friendly today that a school of urban theorists thrives by instructing municipal authorities on the fine points of luring artists, hipsters, gays, and rock bands to their cities on the ground that where these groups go, corporate offices will follow.

But though the stars were spread across a great reaching blackness, the streets below were bathed in a stale gray dimness which suggested neither night nor day nor any natural phase between them.

In Oakland, he saw two slum children sword fighting on a slag heap. In Palo Alto, a puffy fop in bursting jodhpurs shouted from the door of a luxurious stable, "My horse is soiled!" While one chilly evening in Union Square he listened to a wild-eyed young woman declaim that she had seen delicate grandmothers raped by Kiwanis zombies, that she had seen Rotarian blackguards bludgeoning Easter bunnies in a coal cellar, that she had seen Irving Berlin buying an Orange Julius in Queens.

The rain grew louder, the gutters talking to the downspouts.

It'd take a guy a lifetime to know Brooklyn t'roo and t'roo. An' even den, yuh wouldn't know it all. Only the dead know Brooklyn t'roo an' t'roo.

This city is like some giant social experiment conducted every single day. This place should be a fucking powder keg—but somehow, it's not.

I led Paul out the door, and neither of us said a word while we crossed the street. Once we made it to the other side, Paul stopped to stare at the building. He was babbling incoherently. The only words I caught were "fucking uptown" and "pancreas." He still had the doorman's pen in his hand.

Japanese addresses typically involve three numbers separated by dashes (e.g., 3-35-31). The first of these is the sub-area where the house or building is located, the second is the block it is on, and the third is the building number. And when these numbers are added together, the sum equals the percentage chance that you are never going to find the building you're looking for.

I wandered around for hours, dodging falling poo in alleyways

Cape Coral is the largest city between Tampa and Miami, in terms of square miles, which was 120. Of greater note are its 400 miles of canals, more than any other city in the world, including Venice.

If you want to be a cop, it's not for everybody, no question about it, but there's no place like New York City.

I don't like being in London too long, because everybody's just looking straight forward, at nobody else. That freaks me out a little bit.

I grew up on film noir.

Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it.

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

L.A.'s a lot of noise and stuff. You always hear cars and stuff.

I come from New York. It's busy. It's populated. It's noisy. It's loud.

I fall asleep to a movie every night! I don't have a go-to movie, but I like Netflix or whatever I can find. Usually, it's just noise in the background; I think it's damage from living in New York, where it's so noisy.

I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

The thing I love about Norwegian cities is that you often have nature right at your doorstep - you don't need to go that far. That makes it a lot easier to just get out.

I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.

I never carry a notebook while walking around London. I just pick those things up. I'm very good at quizzes.