Quotes About Urban

There's nothin' wrong with the way men dress in New York!

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

I plan to live to be 98, so I'll be the guy at Dundas and Yonge flogging a box of mouldy novels.

I like to drive nice cars; since I live in New York, and I don't drive there, it's a novelty to be on the road and drive and listen to my music.

I find N.Y. very inspiring; there is an amazing energy and flow of creativity in N.Y. like nowhere else.

There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?

Oakland has always been my muse.

For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool.

I've been sort of gentrification-obsessed. Right before I left Oakland in 2012, I was feeling it. Now I go back sporadically, and the change is drastic.

I could have been an artist painting pictures and I would have fell in love with Oakland.

In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.

No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all.

Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.

Oh, I know what to do when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I strike the asphalt three times with my forehead and get ready to spiel yarns for my supper.

In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called places.

In the big city the twin spirits Romance and Adventure are always abroad seeking worthy wooers.

Give me," says Pogue, "a big city for my vacation. Especially New York. I'm not much fond of New Yorkers, and Manhattan is about the only place on the globe where I don't find any.

In a city, you can be alone in a crowd, and in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes.

WHAT MAKES CITY LIFE MEANINGFUL IS THE THINGS WE HIDE.

It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one knew who was dead or who was celebrating what - but an archipelago of neighbourhoods in which everyone knew each other.

The only antidote to the loneliness of the streets was the streets themselves.

in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes