I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the… — Karen Walton Copy Share Image
“In the wake of the tax bonanzas for new commercial projects, roadside strips boomed. Private developers responded to the lack of planned… — Dolores Hayden Copy Share Image
Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
They're flowing out of Cook into the fringes. People move out of Chicago and into suburban Cook County and now they're losing… — Kenny Johnson Copy Share Image
There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“They were free to be what they wanted to be, and what they wanted to be was nothing.” — Michael Davidow Copy Share Image
“Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell?” — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Old men who never cheated, never doubted, Communicated monthly, sit and stare At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way Where a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Detroit right now is virtually abandoned at its core to the degree that a lot of what had been slums thirty years… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
My parents weren't in the arts, but we grew up in Balmain, which at that time was an artistic, bohemian suburb of… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken.… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic… — Heather McHugh Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs. I'm an angry suburban nergo. I'm bad in, like, Starbucks. I'll hurt you over a frappuccino. — Alonzo Bodden Copy Share Image
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
We see nation-states collapsing all around us: Libya, Syria, Iraq. We do not want another failed state in our neighborhood, which would… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole… — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
