source: "The Stop Snitchin' Crisis; Did U.S. Military Choose Public Relations Over Truth in Tillman Death?; War of Words Over Iraq Funding Escalates". "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", April 24, 2007.

topic: Ghetto, Artist, Urban

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

- George Osborne

topic: Urban, Metropolitan, Backgrounds

Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

- George S. Patton

topic: Trying, Urban, Planning, Urban Planning

Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles.

- Greg Peterson

topic: Simple, Creating, Urban, Edibles

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

- Helmut Jahn

topic: Urban, Building, Minors

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

- Irving Babbitt

source: Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

topic: Revolution, Urban, Ethical, Industrial Revolution, Ethical Standards

Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

- John Prebble

source: John Prebble (1956). “Disaster at Dundee”

topic: Men, Approval, Urban, Civil Engineer, Civil Engineering

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

- Julianne Malveaux

topic: Space, People, Urban, Margins

Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.

- Kelley Armstrong

topic: Men, Survival, Urban, Elena Michaels

Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger.

- Ken Salazar

topic: Colorado, Rural Areas, Urban, Scourge, Urban Areas

EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context

- Kengo Kuma

topic: Perspective, Urban

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

- Kenneth Frampton

topic: Technology, Creating, Urban

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

- Kenzo Tange

topic: Special, Development, Urban, Urban Planning

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

- Larry McMurtry

topic: People, Stories, Urban, Academy

Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.

- Louis-Philippe I of France

topic: Urban, Planning, Habit, Urban Design, Urban Planning

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

- Mark Batterson

topic: Past, Church, Urban, Church Buildings, Urban Environment

Hey I think the urban meyer rule is in effect right now, When the going gets tough..QUIT.

- Maurice Jones-Drew

source: "Critics question injured QB's toughness" by Tom Rock, www.sfgate.com. January 24, 2011.

topic: Thinking, Hey, Urban, Going Gets Tough

Canada can be tough for urban music.

- Melanie Fiona

topic: Canada, Urban, Tough, Urban Music

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

- Michael Porter

topic: Community, Urban, Ripple Effect, Ripple

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

- Moshe Safdie

topic: Architecture, Urban, Worthy

The Six Faces of the FUTURE are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical.

- Patrick Dixon

source: "Futurewise". Book by David Perkins, 1998.

topic: Faces, Six, Urban

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

- Phil Collins

topic: Song, Sweet, Urban, Middle Of The Road, Urban Renewal

A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!

- Richard Carson

topic: Likes, Different, Urban, Urban Planning

This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.

- Richard Rogers

topic: Views, Long, Urban, Pivotal, Regeneration

The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.

- Robert Smithson

topic: Numbers, Development, Urban, Urban Sprawl

Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

- Robin Gibb

topic: Inspiration, Urban, Scene

For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.

- Rupert Brooke

topic: Smile, People, Urban, Cambridge, Squat

I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas.

- Shane Carruth

topic: Texas, People, Urban

I'm a massive shopper. Topshop, Urban Outfitters - I'm pretty at home on the high street.

- Sophie McShera

topic: Home, Topshop, Urban, Shoppers

The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal.

- Steven F. Hayward

topic: Government, Liberty, Urban, Urban Renewal

Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.

- Steven Rattner

topic: Dresses, Urban, Assault, Peddler

A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Urban, Planning, Traffic, Urban Planning

A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films.

- Tyrese Gibson

topic: Black, Actors, Urban

All of the films I'm doing are young, urban, high-concept, funny films. That's the zone where I'd like to play and have fun in.

- Vir Das

topic: Fun, Play, Urban

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

- Walter Lippmann

topic: Media, Privilege, Urban, Great Society

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

- Wendell Berry

topic: May, Urban, Farming, Proxy, Food Production

If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?

- William J. Brennan

topic: Why Not, Urban, Planning, Urban Planning

Keeping up with Urban Meyer is more of an Olympic event than handball.

- Wright Thompson

topic: Events, Urban, Handball

I like to say I had a very varied undergraduate education. I was an English major first, and then at the end of my college career I decided I was interested in urban planning. I became an urban studies major, with a minor in poetry. I don't think I knew what I was looking for in my early twenties, but I know I kept not finding it.

- Ayana Mathis

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: College, Thinking, Urban, English Major, Urban Planning

I've always been interested in fashion, and Urban Outfitters presented me with a huge opportunity to pursue that interest.

- Bethany Cosentino

topic: Fashion, Opportunity, Urban

The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

- Dave Zirin

topic: Urban, Building, Stadiums

I love clothes! Ill wear anything from Urban Outfitters or American Apparel.

- J. R. Celski

topic: Clothes, Urban, Apparel

As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.

- Julia Kent

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Shells, Urban, Mercy

Few would look at a concrete highway system or an electrical grid and perceive agency in their static arrangement, spaces and urban arrangements are usually treated as collections of objects or volumes, not as actors. Yet the organization itself is active. It is doing something.

- Keller Easterling

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Urban, Concrete, Electrical

When you go to urban America and you look at cities around America. People are moving back into the cities at record numbers. In the 1980s it was a flight to the suburbs. And now in 2017, it's a flight back into the cities.

- Marty Walsh

topic: Moving, People, Urban

You have to get out in the world and meet folks on their own turf, something which a lot of urban radical intellectuals seldom do.

- Michael Yates

topic: World, Urban, Radical, Turf

Even if you live in New York City, you can have a little basil plant in your window, and that could be considered urban farming.

- Novella Carpenter

topic: Urban, Window, Farming

I don't know Hillary's Clinton stance on urban farming. I don't know Donald Trump's stance or Bernie Sanders's for that matter. But the Obamas have been amazing. You know, Michelle Obama, she planted that garden. She keeps bees there at the White House. Little known fact, though, is that Laura Bush also had an organic garden but she never told anyone about it.

- Novella Carpenter

topic: Garden, House, Urban

We have to immediately stop using the oceans as a dumping ground for our urban and industrial waste.

- Serge Dedina

topic: Ocean, Waste, Urban

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

- Sxip Shirey

topic: Way, Urban, Tradition, New Music

I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life.

- William Atherton

topic: Boys, Urban, Adopted

We would like to have a great future, so we need to think about the urban philosophy, the urban problems, and the construction of the city. That's the new politics, maybe.

- Burhan Sonmez

topic: Philosophy, Thinking, Urban

When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something, they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.

- FKA twigs

topic: People, Firsts, Urban

In Africa, you cannot come into a comfortable material lifestyle without going through Christ. So many Africans say, "I'll take the whole package. That way I'm sure I'll get what I want." This is the compromise the rising urban class of Africa makes. Christianity is not seen as a soul-transforming device capable of producing redemption, but as a source of substantial material gratification.

- Malidoma Patrice Some

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Redemption, Urban, Compromise

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

- Socrates

topic: Cities, Community, Urban, Urban Planning

Met shawty up in Urban Outfitters, she killin' these hoes now I'm murking out with her.

- Lil Wayne

source: Song: She Bad

topic: Hoe, Urban, Mets, These Hoes

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.

- Susan Sontag

topic: Intellectual, Exotic, Urban, Repulsion, Anthropologists

Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

- Philip Pullman

source: "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

topic: Ideas, Imagination, Urban, Visual Images

There's something about urban life - you walk out your door, and you're in a steady of stream of life happening around you, and it's very easy to get caught up in that stream and simply kind of keep on moving.

- Dani Shapiro

source: "Book Release: Devotion". Interview with Kari Wethington, www.elle.com. January 7, 2010.

topic: Moving, Doors, Urban, Urban Life

It's easier in an urban world to cast the blame outward. So I've learned a lot about my own process in that way.

- Dani Shapiro

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: World, Way, Urban

I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.

- John Green

source: John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.34, Penguin

topic: Mean, Want, Urban

Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.

- Timothy Leary

source: Timothy Leary (2009). “Evolutionary Agents”, p.43, Ronin Publishing

topic: People, Urban, Christianity

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

- David Brooks

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Differences, Identity, Urban

You could call it that [urban Western], I guess, you could certainly call it that. A lot of these types of films are, really, if you get down to the core most suspense thrillers in this genre, the Western is sort of the birth of it all.

- Antoine Fuqua

source: "Director Antoine Fuqua Talks the Equalizer, Westerns, the Hard R Rating, Changes From the 80s Series, and More on Set". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 25, 2014.

topic: Suspense, Urban, Birth

I mean, I know my heart is not clean, and your heart is not clean, and none of our urban hearts are clean. But you can be washed again.

- Mary J. Blige

topic: Heart, Mean, Urban

Yes,” Howie said solemnly. “I can teach you how to be more ‘street’”. “For God’s sake…” “Or is it ‘urban’? I can’t remember. Anyway, I can teach you, grasshopper. Or hip-hopper.

- Barry Lyga

source: Barry Lyga (2014). “Game”, p.145, Random House

topic: Sake, Hips, Urban

Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.

- Michael Ignatieff

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Class, Issues, Urban, Urban And Rural