“Rural culture is marked by a different sense of time, a different cosmology. At the core of rural culture, he says, is… — Xiaowei Wang Copy Share Image
I found 'Bordertown' when I was standing on the border between childhood and my teens, and it carried me past that transition.… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Mostly the natural landscapes work as a sounding board for my characters, so they can understand themselves, and it acts as a… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“Staying relaxed was helping him cope with the drug induced juddering vision that could be best described as being like a Hitchcockian… — Dylan Perry Copy Share Image
In New York the stakes are so high. In urban centers the stakes are so high. You marry the wrong person, you… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
“I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be… — Angelic Artiaga Copy Share Image
In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I realized some time ago that, while there are really, really high quality schools in urban India - my daughter attends one… — Shaffi Mather Copy Share Image
In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization,… — Dan Carter Copy Share Image
“C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But when the… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
Because I'm seen on 'Oz', a lot of the urban cats in the city are like, 'Yo, I thought you'd be rolling… — Kirk Acevedo Copy Share Image
Syria is on the back end of basically a decade-long drought. Over the last decade, farmers and herders have been ravaged in… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
In Brazil, even inside the same city, people from different parts dress differently. Sao Paulo, for example, is more connected to global… — Ricardo Nunes Copy Share Image
Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to… — Fergie Copy Share Image
I enjoy places that have mystery and atmosphere, perhaps a patina of age, a suggestion rather than a description, a question or… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
It is not education, but education of a certain kind, that will serve us. And the current model of western, urban-centered, school-based,… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
I think there's no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant,… — Tosca Lee Copy Share Image
Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
I have the greatest appreciation for [producers] Matt Alvarez and Ice Cube. They put me in Friday after Next, and now this,… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
“When I was three years old and in my mother's arms, she looked down at me and said, "Son, the way I'm… — Donald Goines Copy Share Image
People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'm influenced by the music of the '60s. It's a mishmash of everything. To me, psychedelic can be all the way to… — Anton Newcombe Copy Share Image
We've concocted a system where local trips take an auto. That's our biggest tragedy. Streetcars, such as those used in Portland's Pearl… — Peter Calthorpe Copy Share Image
Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken'… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
The Place of Religion in Chicago is a clearly written account of a little-studied aspect of American landscape. Based on unique field… — Peter Haggett Copy Share Image
Ironically, though our society of affluence brings safety and stability, it doesn't bring psychological health. As wealth goes up, suicide and depression… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I think that when you have any folks in our population who live under the threat of violence, who live under the… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely,… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
“To know Seattle one must know its waterfront. It is a good waterfront, not as busy as New York's, not as self-consciously… — Murray Morgan Copy Share Image
Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons.… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that,… — John P. Walters Copy Share Image
I think of my life as divided between a lot of different periods. I grew up in the country, but as I… — Reed Krakoff Copy Share Image
People don't know where they stand and what they're going to lose, and that makes things uncertain. The political parties try to… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image