Quotes About Urban

In dem erfrorenen, versteinerten Körper der Stadt fühlte er ganz zu innerst sein Herz schlagen.

Architecture is a social art that choreographs human interacti(-_-)n.

I came to the conclusion, Marilla, that I wasn't born for city life and that I was glad of it. It's nice to be eating ice cream at brilliant restaurants at eleven o'clock at night once in a while; but as a regular thing I'd rather be in east gable at eleven, sound asleep, but kind of knowing even in my sleep that the stars were shining outside and the wind was blowing in the firs across the brook.

Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.

We are not going to have a zombie-versus-vampire war through the streets of Dublin, Nathaniel.

In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.

they turned up Regent Street, braced together against the sway of the pavement. [The Language of Bees, chapter 19]

There are eight million stories in the naked city, he intoned. You remember that program? Used to be on television some years back. I remember. They had that line at the end of every show. 'There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.' I remember it. Eight million stories, he said. You know what you got in this city, this fucked-up toilet of a naked fucking city? You know what you got? You got eight million ways to die.

The New Your energy goes beyond anything you'll find anywhere else. It's too much for some people and it grinds them down, but it lifts up and animates the rest of us.

You think he just died of natural causes?" "This is New York. Murder's a natural cause in this city.

Or we skip all that and just show him getting out a taxi in front of the Hotel Northwestern.

It was already dark and the city was drifting like a bed of seaweed towards the lighted cafés of the upper town.

When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.

London is not a good place to be when you are sad: so crowded it makes you feel lonely.

I get so sad that sad gets to be.So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so city girl on you. I go so crazy I don't know what to do.

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

He spent the afternoon alone in the streets.

In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.

I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.

Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.