Quotes About Urban

L.A. is a great city to get lost in. The best thing to do is to drive in any direction, find a strip mall, and go from one store to the next. I guarantee you will see a collision of cultures you never imagined.

A woman's body should be stronger than the environment. Strong enough to overpower the negative elements, especially in cities like New York and Los Angeles.

I think the city is the strongest social memory organ of humanity.

Bridges and stations are very strongly related to the development of a city.

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

I think, in our modern cities, there are a lot of boxes; there are a lot of straight lines. They often deal with efficiency, the function, the structure.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

London and L.A. are two opposites - I like the difference.

We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take New York, for example: they'd give Negroes little five-cent jobs here and there - and they thought they had something. And the same in Chicago and any of the metropolitan areas.

I don't feel very optimistic in London.

I live in Bed-Stuy. I'm from Flatbush. It's not that easy to find places that are close by that I feel offer healthy options.

I'm originally from New York, and I just have a love affair with that place.

Every street in London has a camera, and if you ever travel up the M4, it feels as if George Orwell should be your chauffeur.

Coming out of college, back to New York, where I didn't really know that many people, I thought our world was very atomized.

I didn't know Chicago was so aggressive. It's real aggressive out here. Everybody kind of recognizes you out here. But it's a good feeling.

I love downtown Seattle. It's a city that has all of the outdoor activities and is still a very cosmopolitan city.

I do as much outdoor stuff as I can. What I've done is I bought a house in the middle of Hollywood, but I live in the forest. I literally live in an area that looks kind of like where I camped as a kid, but in the middle of Hollywood. It's called Laurel Canyon.

I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

Montreal is not what I'm used to. I'm used to big mountains and the outdoors. I'm not much of a city guy.

We always hear Compton and Long Beach, but Watts is always overlooked.

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

Coloured marble, pompous avenues, urban planning: what were these, if not the prerogatives of kings? No one, in a free republic, could be permitted such sinister grandstanding. This was why, in the last feverish decade before the crossing of the Rubicon, the sudden appearance in Rome of a rash of grandiose monuments had served as portents of the Republic's ruin.