Quotes About Urban

I don't ride the subway. Either I walk, or I take a New York City taxi.

Our goal was never to create a better taxi.

For me, a taxi is like a public space because so many people get in that space.

Everyone should try a taxi, as it is part of the New York experience.

I have no limo. In cities, I usually hail a taxi like everyone else.

Looking back at 'Taxi Driver' or, really, any of the Martin Scorsese films, he really filmed New York City in a way that I saw New York City.

Kids in the city can play cricket, badminton, tennis or football. Athletics is not their cup of tea.

So Newark had the highest percentage of substandard housing of any American city: 7,097 units had no flush toilets; 28,795, no heaters. Twenty-eight babies died in a diarrhea epidemic in 1965, eighteen of them at City Hospital, which was also infested by bats.

Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

to stay clear of the downtown

I'd be a monster fighter who rode the bus. It didn't get any more bad-ass than that.

The place was out in Jersey . . . Newark. And while that made living with yourself harder, it did make parking somewhat easier.

Concord village was an outpost of urban civilization in the countryside.

Streets full of water; please advise.

Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.

Streets flooded. Please advise.

A commuter tie-up consists of you - and people who for some reason won't use public transit.

A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit.

There had been no wolves, of course. Not in a city like this. He wished it did not feel so – alone.

Cities, she thought, they're the problem. Cities were stinking, festering places, like sores that never healed. Some were better than others—Elayne did an admirable job with Caemlyn—but the best of them gathered too many people and taught them to grow comfortable staying in one place.

Hello from the cracks in the sidewalks of New York City and from the ants that dwell in those cracks and feed on the dried blood of the dead…" David Berkowitz a.k.a. Son of Sam

When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying.

There is nothing in a crowded street more noticeable than a man running ? unless it is a woman.

Appena arrivata credeva in cima ai grattaceli ci stessero dei tizi che vedevano tutto quello che succedeva e non sarebbero mai scesi a parlarle. Poi aveva scoperto che non c'è nessuno che sa quello che succede.