Quotes About Urban

A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake of all these experiences and never say hello to anyone new. And one of the things that all religions do is take groups of strangers into a space and say it is OK to talk to each other.

I like the fact there can be so many secret places in a city filled with people. It gives me hope.

No lawyers in Nekropolis. They're too scary even for this city.

As the three of us walked, we caught the occasional glimpse of a shambling thing lurking in an alley or dark eyes peering through broken shutters in an abandoned building, but we made sure not to disturb them and they in turn didn't seek to devour our souls. A good arrangement all the way around, as far as I was concerned.

The spectacle of the United States Army chasing the unarmed veterans, their wives, and their children out of the shadow of the Capitol was a scene of American urban combat without parallel since the Civil War.

The only communications truly without influence are those that one learns to ignore or never hears at all; this is why Jacques Ellul argued that it is only the disconnected—rural dwellers or the urban poor—who are truly immune to propaganda, while intellectuals, who read everything, insist on having opinions, and think themselves immune to propaganda are, in fact, easy to manipulate.

Destinados al colectivo masculino con buen manejo de las tecnologías de entre veinticinco y cuarenta años de edad residentes en ciudades grandes de Estados Unidos, como San Francisco, Nueva York, Chicago, Los Ángeles, etc. (que me permitieran acelerar el crecimiento/la escalada con mi público).

Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

Accepting the markings as a natural part of the urban landscape was already a compromise with a murderous future.

nothing is real that does not end on the streets.

Pink light district

I wasn't really a beach boy. I was a city boy, afraid of the ocean.

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

I feel safe in Auckland but it's best to be careful in any city. There's the odd pickpocket like anywhere else but if you're street-smart, you'll be okay.

I go down the street thinking, 'Oh my God, I live in New York.' But then I think, 'Oh my God, I'm on Broadway!'

Oklahoma City's not real small; it's got a good amount of the people.

Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.

One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy.

I do a lot of eavesdropping. That's one of the things I miss about New York: just checking people out.

We used to move pianos in New York City, and one time, it was, like, eight guys on a piano that was made of glass. We were moving it for Alicia Keys.

I have a whole life in New York and a life in L.A. and to live one-third of the year in a place that isn't one of those is kind of a bummer.

Ranchi is a much better place than Mumbai or any other big city in the country. People here are simple and open-minded.

Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties.

I've been obsessed with Opening Ceremony since I moved to New York. I've spent whole paychecks there.