Across the globe, one billion people live in slums: that is, one in seven human being — F Copy Share Image
I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again. — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard, Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards! — Ghostface Killah Copy Share Image
I've been known to slum it and shop in the gag-him-and-bag-him aisles, believe it or not. — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in… — Katherine Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
'Slumdog Millionaire' is a fairy tale, but it starts in a place you really believe, and that came from spending two months… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
People were consuming on average less calories after the war than during the war. Things were still very tough. If you look… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There are a number of parallels between the slums of Brazil and those found in my hometown, Karachi. The dichotomy that exists… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
“There were eccentric characters in the hotel. The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people — people who have fallen into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often,… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
God loved us, and to prove it to us became human in order to become our brother in the flesh. He became… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The very word "change" has changed. When I was young--and not just because I was young--we looked forward with confident impatience to… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
“The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But Buenos Aires also had poor outlying slums, called villa miserias, where hundreds of thousands of people lived in tin or cardboard… — Neal Bascomb Copy Share Image
Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, (while) the internet is like a crime-ridden slum, — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
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