Quotes about Urban

One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.

In Manchester, there are two restaurants, and everything's small. It rains all the time.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Tower'd cities please us then,And the busy hum of men.

[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, incessant and loud, with the rumble of the subways underneath - and over all, the revolutions of light, the growings and recedings of light - light dividing like pearls - forming and reforming in glittering bars and circles and monstrous grotesque figures cut amazingly on the sky.

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.