“Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
I believe most of suburbia is unreformable and will not be fixed. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“The best scenario for a genius to be born is a suburban area, not choc-a-bloc a place, for wits prefer quietness.” — Lana M. Rochel Copy Share Image
The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion,… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
The thing you gotta understand about L.A. is that everything is suburbia. Los Angeles isn't set up like San Francisco or New… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
“The side effects of growing up ‘just outside of [insert major urban center here] are many but practically intangible. This is logical… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
It wasn't the first film to show a kind of alternate vision of suburbia, but it left an indelible impression, I think,… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
“their suburbia house in Brentwood" was how she referred to the house when we bought it, a twelve-year-old establishing that it was… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“A church leader studied the history of architecture in New Zealand and found that before World War II, homes were built with… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
“He hated the blue platter his mother served from, and the salt and pepper shakers, which were glass with red tops, and… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I think that the invasion of suburbia, our homes and our families, by this indefatigable, unstoppable force like zombies is frightening and… — Marc Price Copy Share Image
“Hurrying on, Barbee nodded to the workman as casually as he could. His skin felt goose-pimpled under the thin red robe, and… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
One thing that I'm predicting is that there will be a vigorous and futile defense of suburbia and all its entitlements, no… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Consider how badly-built suburbia is. Many business buildings are not designed to outlast their tax depreciation periods, and the McHouses are made… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“pissing on photos, we wake parched in parallel realities i still end up drowning in visions he settles for the horror; hostage… — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
'Jesus of Suburbia' is such a dynamic song from start to finish; it's nine minutes of craziness and hectic-ness and emotion... It's… — Aquaria Copy Share Image
“One thing he held against the bird force was the curse of knowing always which direction he was headed in, without the… — Douglas Woolf Copy Share Image
“Suburbia Knocks by Stewart Stafford Covert dawn's surreptitious light, A magpie sentry's warning song, Swooping, scanning silent streets, Cackling danger all night… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood, remote from the world of stern and ludicrous adults.… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
“The curious culture of the modern suburb will believe anything it is told in the papers about the wickedness of the Pope,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“As I do my best to haggle down the prices further, Mr. Williams responds with a pained expression on his face, “Oh… — Simon Brass Copy Share Image
“The time of dangling insects arrived. White houses with caterpillars dangling from the eaves. White stones in driveways. You can walk at… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Submerged Suburbia by Stewart Stafford Fell out of bed, dragging my soul, Looked out the old goldfish bowl, To see suburbia was… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“The trick is to learn to believe that it's a disconnected world, a lunatic world, where what is true now was not… — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
“In Southern California it didn't make any difference anyhow where you went; there was always the same McDonaldburger place over and over,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“That was the ballad of suburbia: give me loud to drown out the silence.” — Stephanie Kuehnert Copy Share Image
Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“The place where a genius is likely to be born is a suburban area.” — Lana M. Rochel Copy Share Image
We struck out on our own in suburbia with parents who actually helped us get where we needed to go. — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland. — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I'm really the candidate who has really lived his whole life in suburbia. — Bob McDonnell Copy Share Image
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