Quotes About Urban

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.

New York is big, fast, energetic, and has the most and best of everything. While it can push the senses, it's the most convenient place to live. It's much easier for a ninety year old to live in New York City than in the suburbs. NYC is the best mass assisted-living facility on the planet.

I don't like all suburbs, just like I don't like all parts of cities.

I like living in the city. I really don't like the suburbs.

San Francisco is a city; L.A. is a collection of suburbs that have very little in common with one another.

Growing up, I imagined I would come to New York, get married, move to the suburbs and have kids. It just didn't happen that way.

You don't look at each other on the subway.

Growing up in New York City, I'd flirted with the idea of driving, but between the subway and the sidewalks, I'd never needed to learn.

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.

I remember getting to New York and riding the subway in the morning to go to a doctor's appointment, and getting jealous of commuters that were going to their jobs.

I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.

No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

I am a stereotypical northeasterner. I'm always in a rush. I've attracted stares from out-of-towners when I've shoved past someone blocking the subway door.

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

The only pleasurable part of taking the subway, as everyone will agree, is concocting elaborate fantasies about what it would be like to be married to the most interesting strangers you see there.

My crazy fear is I'm always afraid my keys are going to fall down a subway grate when I walk over it. I'm afraid they're going to jump out of my pocket and fall down. Isn't that stupid?

There's nowhere in New York to go and have your emotions to yourself. People just look the other way because every day people see someone crying on the subway!

Believe it or not, I've never been on the subway.

I just hope I can still take the subway, honestly.