Quotes About Urban

There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things.

The country morning exists; the city morning promises. The former makes one live; the latter makes one think.

The country morning exists; the city morning promises. The former makes one live; the latter makes one think. And I'm doomed always to feel, like the world's great damned men, that it's better to think than to live. 202

I don't know why, but I'm troubled by this objective network of wide and narrow streets, this succession of street lamps, trees, lighted and dark windows, opened and closed gates – heterogeneously nocturnal shapes which my near-sightedness makes even hazier, until they become subjectively monstrous, unintelligible and unreal.

I'm sad, but not with a definite sadness, nor even with an indefinite sadness. I'm sad down there, on the street littered with packing crates.

It's just like any other city and cities ain't all that complicated." But they were. New York was swishing and jamming one minute and dirty and dead the next.

I love London. I'm a London fanatic. That's my city.

I like going down to London for a couple of days, but it's a place where I'd never fancy living - too busy, too lively, people on top of you.

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

Walking around town and driving around London - it's like a fashion show on every corner.

New York is a good city for not having to get fat.

My favorite area in Brooklyn is Williamsburg.

Berlin is my favourite city.

I would like to live in New York - it is my favourite city; I love it.

I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

Everyone in New York wants to move to London, and everyone in London wants to live in New York. A few people want to live in L.A., but I'll never understand that. It's too much for me.

Nature made the fields and man the cities.

I love filming in New York. I love New York movies, too. I just like it when people can take New York and make it their own, because there are so many different New Yorks.

Filming in London is brilliant.

No one is going to come here if it's a filthy city, if it's not a safe city.

Most of my world is in London, and I feel like this is where I went mad and ended up finding myself.

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion.