Quotes About Urban

But, poor little kid, it's too bad you should find it out - so soon." "Find out what?" "That the lonesomest place in all the world is in a crowd in a big city.

Se non c'e' amore, non solo inaridisce la vita delle persone, ma anche quella delle citta

Why did I insist on blocking myself against the marrow of life? Wasn't this—this, being outside, here, negotiating with a handsome, possibly disabled mugger—wasn't this, the cigarette butts and melon guts in the gutter, the faint smell of horses, the sickening pulse of bass from the clubs—wasn't this what life was?

In the next chapter, we shall look at some aspects of 'sensory deprivation'. As noise abatement enthusiasts have discovered, its opposite, sensory overload, is a largely disregarded problem. The current popularity of techniques like 'transcendental meditation' may represent an attempt to counterbalance the absence of silence and solitude which the modern urban environment inflicts upon us.

Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

Alegría infantil en los rincones de las ciudades muertas!... ¡Y algo nuestro de ayer, que todavía vemos vagar por estas calles viejas!

Huye de la ciudad. ¡El tedio urbano! — ¡carne triste y espíritu villano!—.

En casa uno facilmente puede sentirse encerrado, agobiado por la falta de horizonte, por la excesiva familiaridad de las cosas. En el cafe se es a la vez sedentario y transeunte, y si uno tiene la suerte de ocupar una mesa junto al ventanal, la situacion es admirable, perfecta: uno es la estampa involuntaria del desconocido que mira la calle tras los cristales del cafe, y esa figura, ese anonimato, le concede una vision alejada y un poco novelesca de si mismo.

People who live near & close to the Mother Nature in villages or on mountains are oft found to have a better sensitive nature than those who stay in town & city.

Switching over from the usage of car and motorbike to bicycle for daily commuting within the city is only a befitting reply to the artificial fuel price hike happening regularly.

There are more asses in cities than in villages.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS A MIDGET MUST GO!

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.

When I first got to the city, I had no money. I was living in Queens amongst boxes and lived in Harlem and didn't have a couch.

I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'

It's difficult because Manhattan is so fantastic, and it's 9 miles away, and all these cool rich people live there and have great lives, and you live in a semi-attached row house in Queens.

There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.

Everything moves a little quicker in Los Angeles.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

I live in a flat in central London. I do like it there; there's always stuff going on. But I do crave a bit of peace and quiet.

When you've biked only on quiet cul-de-sacs and college campuses, the idea of riding in the city, right up there alongside the cars, seems, frankly, pretty absurd.

I need both to feel good: the energy of the city and the quietness of the country.