Quotes About Urban

In the gay world anything outside London counts as country.

Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

The meat is on the street."11

Despite the mountain of gold that has been built downtown, Los Angeles remains vulnerable to the same explosive convergence of street anger, poverty, environmental crisis, and capital flight that made the early 1990s its worth crisis period since the early Depression.

Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful.

As the car goes its way, some people seek escape from the necks by staring at the progress-meter above the door—the light that hops from one number to the next. A glance is all that is necessary, but some riders follow the progress, floor by floor, trying to guess where it will stop next. A few—probably habitual readers—spend the time reading the city inspection permit above the control panel.

Fats Boylermaker, 22, who once leaned against a corner light pole from 2 A.M. Sunday until noon Sunday, when the tavern opened again.

Housing without people, and people without housing.

You know you're in L.A. when you put air in your tires and they cough.

And the stairs. Oh, the stairs. The staircase in our third-floor walk-up was the steepest, hardest, metal-est staircase I have ever encountered in my life. It was a staircase for killing someone and making it seem like an accident.

If I took the nicer subway, it meant I had to go through Manhattan every morning to get there, and that took a really long time. The subway line that ran the short way was the G line, which stopped exclusively in Brooklyn and Queens. That might be the only time the word exclusive has been used to describe the G train.

New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it's weird.

LA isn't a walking city, or a subway city, so if someone isn't in my house or my car we'll never be together, not even for a moment. And just to be absolutely sure of that, when I leave my car my iPhone escorts me, letting everyone else in the post office know that I'm not really with them, I'm with my own people, who are so hilarious that I can't help smiling to myself as I text them back.

I flitted around the city either turning heads or else walking by heads just as they were turning.

Manhattan had the same population density as Greenland, its population would be two.

They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug

North-south streets are called "avenues" with the location tag at the end; for instance, 24th Avenue NW or 32nd Avenue South. Roads that run east-west are "streets" with the location tag at the beginning; for instance, NE 49th Street or SW Spokane Street.

It's no secret that traffic in the Seattle area is a challenge. The Eastside may be worse.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

15 percent of the adult population in major cities like Berlin, Vienna, Paris, and London.

I guess you don't worry about leaving your speeder in a bad part of town when you're what makes the town bad

In all the cities of this year I have longed for the other city.

Anarchism is not only a stateless society but also a harmonized society that exposes man to the stimuli provided by both agrarian and urban life, to physical activity and mental activity, to unrepressed sensuality and self-directed spirituality, to communal solidarity and individual development, to regional uniqueness and worldwide brotherhood, to spontaneity and self-discipline, to the elimination of toil and the promotion of craftsmanship.