Quotes About Urban

Cobbles are enormously evocative, like the scent of forgotten objects and remembered melodies.

surrounded by snack and coffee shops that lived off the army of clerks.

Each step in the development of the bourgeoisie was accompanied by a corresponding political advance in that class. An oppressed class under the sway of the feudal nobility, an armed and self-governing association of medieval commune: here independent urban republic (as

Part of the corrupt charm of big cities is their acceptance of the wacky, weird, and outrageous within business as usual.

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.

Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.

Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.

The man who is tired of London is tired of looking for a parking space

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.

Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with

I asked a Jewish man, "Do you know where Michigan Avenue is?" He said, "Yes", and walked away.

In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.

In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.

When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.

There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless.

New York is one of man's greatest achievements.

A home in the country is what a city man hopes to buy and a farmer hopes to sell.

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

I would want to have Spider-Man's web slinging abilities. I always thought it'd be cool to swing around the city jumping off of buildings and free diving.

New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.

Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.

Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.