Urban Quotes

I've always wanted to work in America because of those brilliant east-coast political movies of the '70s and '80s - great scripts, wonderful performances, gritty urban parable. Andrew Lincoln
Work Great Wonderful Political Brilliant Gritty Those Parable Performance Because Always America Wanted Urban Movies Scripts
People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city. Andy Goldsworthy
People Edge Other Side City Brought Were Leeds Up Five Done Realise Places Urban Fields Miles Many Works
I'm not sure I could write a straight urban fantasy any more than I could write a straight contemporary story. I would end up being intimidated by all the small details. Anne Bishop
Intimidated Would Details More Small Could Write Contemporary Sure End Up Than Any Being Story Urban Straight Fantasy
Urban legend has it that Area 51 is connected by underground tunnels and trains to other secret facilities around the country. Annie Jacobsen
Country Legend Other Secret Facilities Area Underground Around Trains Urban Connected
Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion. Anthony Albanese
Our Ensuring Cities Economic Reduce Traffic Australia Interest Urban Century Congestion Transport Rail
I like Urban Decay lip products, but I don't wear much make-up on a day-to-day basis. I just apply a little mascara on my lashes and some bronzer. Ashley Roberts
Wear Some Mascara Day-To-Day Like Lip Decay Just Urban Little Much Products Lashes Apply Basis
Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example. Ban Ki-moon
Fault Example Rural Between New For Example Globalization Lines Urban Communities Exposing
Cities have unique home-sharing policy needs - a dense, urban city may have different concerns than a historic vacation town or a non-traditional travel destination. Belinda Johnson
Needs Travel Destination Cities City Town Concerns Policy Non-Traditional Historic Dense Than May Different Urban Unique Vacation
Having born and brought up in Mumbai, I am as urban as urban can be, but my parents ensured that my sister and I understand social responsibility as well. Bhumi Pednekar
Responsibility Parents Sister Born Brought Having Well Understand Am Up Urban Social Social Responsibility Mumbai
The kind of films I do, people assume that I am not a fashionable person, but I am an urban girl, and I have always been fashionable. Bhumi Pednekar
People Girl Assume Films Kind Always Am Been Person Urban Fashionable
I didn't get played on radio or TV for 3 years. They all told me the same thing: it was too urban. They don't see grime music as commercial music, but all music is commercial; it's how you make it. That's what I'm trying to say. Big Narstie
Music Me You Same Thing Too Say TV See Make How Years Commercial Get Trying Same Urban Radio Thing Played
In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban. Bjork
Nature You Ocean Mountains Born Never Between Understood Still Surrounded Middle Where Urban Iceland Capital Choose Europe Why
However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today. Bob Filner
Today You Big Statistics Case Area Mislead True Longer California Limited However Been While Urban Urban Areas Might Gang Gang Violence Violence
Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny. Bob Newhart
Work Funny Me World Though Favorite Introduced City Degrees Comedian Did Pryor Urban Richard Richard Pryor Even Differently Inner Inner City
I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world. Brandon T. Jackson
World Young Come Hip-Hop Urban
Basically, I think that Gotham is all of our urban nightmares and fears made into reality. Instead of hearing footsteps from behind you while you walk down the streets, turning around and finding nobody there, there is somebody there. Brian Azzarello
You Reality Walk Made Somebody Fears Down Think Our Finding Instead Nobody Footsteps Around Hearing Behind While Urban Turning Streets Basically Nightmares
We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name. Bruce Sterling
Work War Genocide Cloud Mushroom Would Weapons Some Case Give Disappeared Name Call Were Huge Up Rogue Shooting Committed May Maybe Different Urban Serious Washington Event Why Acts Nuclear Nuclear Weapons
If you just want instant cool and you don't want to pay a whole lot, just go to Urban Outfitters. Bryan Greenberg
You Pay Instant Go Lot Just Want Urban Cool Whole
Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian. Carlo Ratti
Quality Startup Air Draw Scale Running City Case Networks Attached Individual Through Developed Veins New Like Wheel Human Pollution Dynamic Urban Sensors Bikes Measure Help Exposure Map Copenhagen
As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps. Carlo Ratti
Time People Google Browse Networks Talk Real Traffic Text Real Time Urban Them Congestion Capturing Maps Flows
I got a crash-course education in urban fantasy. I suddenly had to look up all these other writers I was supposed to be in a genre with. I instantly had to become an expert in this genre I knew almost nothing about. Carrie Vaughn
Education Become Nothing Other About Writers Had Knew Instantly Almost Almost Nothing Supposed Look Genre Got Up Expert Urban Fantasy Suddenly
I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are familiar with, and try to turn it into a story. Cecelia Ahern
People Try Myth Possibility Out Kind Some Take Like Always Familiar Story Urban Turn Imagine
No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines. Chang-Rae Lee
Culture Admire Perfect Tropical Cuisines Offering Place Urban Then
Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare. Charles Krauthammer
War Risks Oppose Possibly Costly Exceed Could Iraq Very Gains Urban Warfare Doves Grounds
I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets. Chloe Grace Moretz
Love Jackets American Going Urban Apparel
After going to a few Keith Urban concerts, I thought, 'I'd really like to learn how to play guitar.' I studied Keith Urban a lot and how he performed. Chris Lane
Guitar Thought Few Studied He Performed Like Learn Concerts How Lot Going After Urban Really Play
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