Urban Quotes - Page 3

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

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

You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers.

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

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

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.

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.

A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.

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.

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.

We need to do a lot of restructuring of the existing ports, particularly Durban. The separation of oversight and regulation from operations in the port, the possibility of bringing in private investors, to put in new investment to build capacity in the port. So, the restructuring of the ports will take place like that.

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

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

'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.

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.

The idea of the chickens with the multiple breasts and thighs came from an urban legend that some fast-food places had developed chickens with four thighs. It wasn't true, but it is a suggestive rumor.

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

I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.

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

We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.

When doctors describe pain as experiencing "discomfort," it's like saying Hiroshima experienced "urban renewal".

Unlike the urban development that I see taking over and swallowing up our precious soil, when we interact with our environment in a way that allows for regeneration and natural spaces, the outcome can be beautiful.

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

I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.

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