Suburbs Quote by Bill Henson Download Open image “It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me.” — Bill Henson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Suburbs
I have always found the suburbs very beautiful – the light, the change of seasons and so on. I am not so interested in… — Bill Henson 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 a burning voltage. The dreaming hidden in this place — murmuring beneath the comfort of the uniform gardens in their perfect rows, the mowed lawns, each driveway that bit too small for the two large cars — you… — Colin Walsh Copy Share
My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy, a cesspool… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Back in the olden days when we were rubbing sticks together, everybody wanted to have a comic strip, to live in Westport Connecticut, to have a Jaguar and to have a wife and two and a half kids and to have a girl in town in their studio in Manhattan that they'd romance, and then they'd have people ghost their… — Neal Adams Copy Share
What I'm nostalgic for is the idea of an edge in New York. There used to be these fringes of the city where civilization… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
It was a kingdom of dreams — a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be. — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in… — Junot Diaz 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 momentous enough.… — Jeffrey Eugenides 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. In the… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
The whole idea of the suburbs was to create these family-friendly places where people could flock and have more control over their existences, and… — Josh Hamilton Copy Share Image
Meaning coming from feeling, feeling coming from within, you absorb a massive amount of information, it goes through your whole body, a little bit… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
No medium is more limited than any other. It's what a person does with it. We could talk about the differences between music and… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking. — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
I was always amazed at how beautiful the light was. At different times of the day the landscape becomes a different place. Dawn and… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
When you shoot on film, you don't know whether you've got it or not until you get the film processed, and so it changes… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
I have always found the suburbs very beautiful – the light, the change of seasons and so on. I am not so interested in… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
As a boy I was obsessed with Egypt and Egyptology. I'm convinced it's not that uncommon. A lot of 10 or 12 year old… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body. — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
“In the 1954 Internal Revenue Code, a Republican Congress changed forty-year, straight-line depreciation for buildings to permit 'accelerated depreciation' of greenfield income-producing property in seven years. By enabling owners to depreciate or write off the value of a building in such a short time, the law created a gigantic hidden subsidy for the developers of cheap new commercial buildings located… — Dolores Hayden Copy Share
I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It's a lovely part… — Alexander Hanson Copy Share Image
“Upstairs Margaret said abruptly, 'I suppose it starts to happen first in the suburbs,' and when Brad said, 'What starts to happen?' she said… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“If you want to see how far we have not come from the cave and the woods, from the lonely and dangerous days of the prarie or the plain, witness the reaction of a modern suburban family, nearly ready for bed, when the doorbell rings or the door is rattled. They will stop where they stand, or sit bolt upright… — Alice McDermott Copy Share
I see no reason why I should not live on indefinitely just as I have done, and on the whole I am more comfortable… — Mary Borden Copy Share Image
If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people… — Suge Knight Copy Share Image
If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
