Urban famous quotes

Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.
-- Allan Jacobs

#Community #Comfort #Urban

I've worked on the urban agenda all my life. All. My. Life.
-- Andrew Cuomo

#Agendas #Urban

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker
-- Armand Assante

#Urban #Quiet #Diehard

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.
-- Ashley Judd

#People #Sides #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

#Sake #Hips #Urban

25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
-- Bob Saget

#Years #Crowds #Urban

Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Car #Important #Urban

The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.
-- Carter Burwell

#Inspiring #Faces #Urban

I have my own production company called Urban Dreams.
-- Chaske Spencer

#Dream #Urban #Company

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.
-- Chloe Grace Moretz

#Topshop #Urban #Apparel

What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.
-- Chris Hayes

#Sake #Doe #Urban

I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.
-- Dani Shapiro

#Country #Urban #Living In The Country

A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.
-- Daniel Burnham

#Noble #Urban #Planning

I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.
-- David Guetta

#Bridges #Culture #Urban

I'm not an urban person.
-- David Guterson

#Urban #Persons

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.
-- David Harvey

#Cities #Liberty #Urban

33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space.
-- Donald Shoup

#Space #Environmental #Urban

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.
-- Eileen Myles

#Urban #Sometimes #Scribes

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.
-- Eric Kripke

#Legends #Urban #Obsession

Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
-- Fergus Henderson

#Urban #Lifestyle #Porridge

New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Men #World #Urban

We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Black #Definitions #Urban

One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility,'
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Ghetto #Artist #Urban

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

#Urban #Metropolitan #Backgrounds

Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.
-- George S. Patton

#Trying #Urban #Planning

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

#Simple #Creating #Urban

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

#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

#Revolution #Urban #Ethical

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

#Men #Approval #Urban

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

#Space #People #Urban

Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Men #Survival #Urban

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

#Colorado #Rural Areas #Urban

EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context
-- Kengo Kuma

#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

#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

#Special #Development #Urban

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

#People #Stories #Urban

Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.
-- Louis-Philippe I of France

#Urban #Planning #Habit

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

#Past #Church #Urban

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

#Thinking #Hey #Urban

Canada can be tough for urban music.
-- Melanie Fiona

#Canada #Urban #Tough

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
-- Michael Porter

#Community #Urban #Ripple Effect

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

#Architecture #Urban #Worthy

I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.
-- Nalo Hopkinson

#World #Legends #Urban

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

#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

#Song #Sweet #Urban

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

#Likes #Different #Urban

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

#Views #Long #Urban

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

#Numbers #Development #Urban

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

#Inspiration #Urban #Scene

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

#Smile #People #Urban

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

#Texas #People #Urban

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

#Home #Topshop #Urban

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

#Government #Liberty #Urban

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

#Dresses #Urban #Assault

A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.
-- T. S. Eliot

#Urban #Planning #Traffic

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

#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

#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

#Media #Privilege #Urban

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

#May #Urban #Farming

If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?
-- William J. Brennan

#Why Not #Urban #Planning

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

#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

#College #Thinking #Urban

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

#Fashion #Opportunity #Urban

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

#Urban #Building #Stadiums

I love clothes! Ill wear anything from Urban Outfitters or American Apparel.
-- J. R. Celski

#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

#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

#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

#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

#World #Urban #Radical

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

#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

#Garden #House #Urban

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

#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

#Way #Urban #Tradition

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

#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

#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

#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

#Redemption #Urban #Compromise