Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“... Women's impulse to change her own rhythms in the face of an environment constructed to retain her as guardian of the… — Nancy Rubin Stuart Copy Share Image
“The activities of automobile manufacturers, commercial real estate developers, and the federal government have been far more important in determining patterns of… — Dolores Hayden Copy Share Image
When I saw 'subUrbia' on stage, I started having those feelings inside me. I saw it as a film, and I felt… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I'm Jewish, and my family is Jewish. I was very interested in Woody Allen when I was growing up, but I don't… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Yet the tranquil image of suburbias of the past remains, and continues to influence us, as do traditional concepts of femininity…” — Nancy Rubin Stuart Copy Share Image
“How Opulent the building had felt after my own parents' bland box of suburbia - one day, I promise, I'm going to… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this,… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
I have a new theory of history, which is certain things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time.… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
We have to make some things for ourselves because the conveyer belt from China is doomed (this process is known as import… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak’s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Like most citizens of popular and international urban centres, I don't take advantage of the cultural opportunities. Perhaps this comes from growing… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“Besides shopping at garage sales, I love hosting garage sales. Every year my mom and I dig through our houses and find… — Jen Mann Copy Share Image
[Suburbia] represents, after all, the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. We built it during our most affluent… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“As he pushed the shopping cart down the narrow aisles [of Whole Foods]he noted two distinct types: the wild-haird bohemians who worked… — Dan Pope Copy Share Image
“I see that you’re about to leave, Rick. I just wanted to make sure that you didn’t miss the Thighmaster over there?… — Simon Brass Copy Share Image
“LA is very different from New York. New York is a huge, dense metropolis. LA is a bunch of small towns all… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“How young I seem; I am exceptional; I think of all I have. But really no one is exceptional, No one has… — Randall Jarell Copy Share Image
Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
One of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
When they dumped all these people out of the insane asylums they didn't all go sleep in the street. Some of them… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to… — Sylvia Plath 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
When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck,… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
In my view, suburbia in general has very poor prospects. I think it will only become devalued and probably more dangerous. It's… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the… — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
“Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
I grew up in suburbia, so it's a world I'm familiar with... but in my experience, all the families that I grew… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
“You were thinking about how suburbs are perfect cradles for dreaming: they practically beg you to imagine another life, one lived at… — Colin Walsh Copy Share Image
The fortunate and successful New Urbanists will be the ones who can find local infill projects in small towns and small cities… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Over the course of my life I've been to lots of places. Shadowed places where things have gone wrong. Sinister places where… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that… — Roger Swain Copy Share Image
I have always found the suburbs very beautiful – the light, the change of seasons and so on. I am not so… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
“Do you remember the suburbs and the plaintive flock of landscapes The cypress trees projected their shadows under the moon That night… — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in all the bright assurances he was lost in a private darkness, led on by a recurrent dream of more than… — William McIlvanney Copy Share Image
These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
![“[Suburbia] represents, after all, the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. We built it during our most affluent period of history, and in the decades to come we will be comparatively destitute collectively. In short, we will not have the resources to retrofit most of…” quote by James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/319/james-howard-kunstler-2886_affluent_suburbia-represents-after-all-the-greate_1095294.png)
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