“You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.” — Erol Ozan Copy Share Image
I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible. — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
“The nice thing about crowds is that someone can throw a bottle and you don't take it personally.” — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
If you keen than hear. Which and what are the urban life taken away from me, Fragrance of soil have missing somewhere… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Urban life itself acts as a giant particle accelerator. When people move to the city, they start to do everything faster.” — Carl Honoré Copy Share Image
“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over… — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
“New York presented a paradox. While foreigners thought of New York has the symbol of America, many Americans viewed the city with… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“If you are having private thoughts and ask an intimate friend to listen to them in privacy or on a date will… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“I didn’t tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive… — Dave Reichert Copy Share Image
“In the street, he turned west and walked against a tide of blank-eyed, gum-chewing faces. A taxi went over a manhole cover,… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I am a person that believes in different emotions with music. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the… — Cam Newton Copy Share Image
“It (urban peacekeeping) was quite a task, requiring a permanent balancing act between communities, each with their own interests, festivals, traditions and… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Street culture is a culture of containment. Most young people do not realize that it all too often leads to a “dead… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
“From the advertisement, his eyes moved up the skywalk, the zigzagging metal bridge that connected various locations in the neighborhood to the… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“All socioeconomic activity in cities involves the interaction between people. Employment, wealth creation, innovation and ideas, the spread of infectious diseases, health… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“What are we to do with the knowledge that Tayo was once a woman? That Ceremony held but abandoned considerable investments in… — David L. Moore Copy Share Image
“The absence of trust is clearly inimical to a well-run society. The great Jane Jacobs noted as much with respect to the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“When you visualized the future and conjured up a world where urban life had spread everywhere and man had achieved his long-desired… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“With its population made up of two categories of people, those who do business and those upon whom they prey, the city… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“I waited in vain for someone like me to stand up and say that the only thing those of us who don't… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“It was indeed the transcendent force of modernization that accounts for the unparalleled strength of Know-Nothingism in Massachusetts. The political fallout from… — John R. Mulkern Copy Share Image
“Sixth, show a deep acquaintance with the same books, magazines, blogs, movies, and plays — as well as the daily life experiences… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Sometimes work was just what you clocked into while you were falling in love. Sometimes sex was just something you did while… — Choire Sicha Copy Share Image
“The “dual economy” paradigm, originally proposed in 1955 by Sir Arthur Lewis, still shapes the way that most social scientists think about… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Continuous growth and the consequent ever-increasing acceleration of the pace of life have profound consequences for the entire planet and, in particular,… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“God is blessing the church in China with extraordinary growth. However, when Chinese churches and ministers who had experienced God’s blessing in… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“We’ve built a ‘human zoo,’ caging ourselves in routines, technology, and artificial environments.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
