Quotes About Urban

All of the films I'm doing are young, urban, high-concept, funny films. That's the zone where I'd like to play and have fun in.

I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.

In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak.

American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.

The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.

I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough, let's go west.'

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

him swinging the baton and knocking out my side teeth and cracking my temple so that I can never hear good out of that ear again and saying let that be a lesson to never take you dutty, stinking, ghetto self uptown again. And I see them and I wait. But

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

For the children and youth in poverty from diverse cultural backgrounds who attend urban schools, having effective teachers is a matter of life and death. These children have no life options for achieving decent lives other than by experiencing success in school … Because it generates extremely high levels of emotional intensity, it [teaching in an urban school system] is more akin to being an air traffic controller than being a 'schoolteacher'.

If you lived in the wild, you'd need to know how to make fire to survive. But you live in an urban world, and you need to make money. That means you need a job, and the only way to get a job is by turning a job interview into a job offer.

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.

Big cities can have big hearts.

Already, with the city behind them, New York didn't feel quite real. As if reality only existed where she existed.

I'm definitely bicoastal, but I have to say, it's easier to live in New York than in L.A. I feel like people respect other people's space a bit more here.

Cities twinkling at night as you drive past them, as if they are fallen constellations of stars.

Santa Barbara is pleasant. It's heaven, but with a bit more traffic.

Cities try to shame us into action, as they know stillness is the preserve of the destitute, the dangerous, the dead.

To continue present policies is to make permanent the division of our country into two societies; one, largely Negro and poor, located in the central cities; the other, predominantly white and affluent, located in the suburbs and in outlying areas.

smartass ice heathens from the north descended upon small-town America to laugh at the superstitious but numerically superior yokels of the heartland. In a breathtakingly accurate preview of things to come, the yokels actually won the trial, but history judged them the losers—thanks mainly to the flamboyant propaganda of a godless misanthrope named H. L. Mencken, the brilliant Darwinian ancestor of the modern liberal media.

La pression de la ville : de toutes parts. Les maisons ne sont pas là pour qu'on y demeure, mais pour qu'il y ait des rues et, dans les rues, le mouvement incessant de la ville.

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated.