Quotes About Urban Landscape

#1. When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.

Ma Jian

#2. What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.

DJ Spooky

#3. Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern experience. Insulate yourself from it with your own soundscape.

Douglas Rushkoff

#4. So he [Sigmund Freud] called this "the uncanny" and he also referred to cities as well, like the idea of walking through the city and the way the urban landscape could lead you to a sense of disorientation and to a kind of, you know, sense of repetition. And the way a city can unfold as you walk.

DJ Spooky

#5. There's no educating a smart boy.

Terry Pratchett

#6. I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space.

Deana Carter

#7. I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

Leonard Peltier

#8. Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

Alexander Pope

#9. The trustworthy postman dressed in khakhi uniform riding a bicycle has been an integral part of urban and rural landscape in India; I wonder if this cultural icon will ever be replaced by the local pizza delivery man? The

Ambi Parameswaran

#10. Everything that informs us of something useful that we didn't already know is a potential signal. If it matters and deserves a response, its potential is actualized.

Stephen Few

#11. It's easier for me to get ready for a game on the road because you're expected to lose when you play away from home. That's a challenge to right there and that perks my competitive juices.

Michael Jordan

#12. And if there is one last thing I would have you know before we reach these final pages, it's that sometimes, no matter how hard we try, no matter how hard we want it to be so, sometimes there is no such a thing as happy ending.
This is my ending. This is how i burn.

T.J. Klune

#13. Abstractionism exacerbated the problem but sustainability, if intelligently conceived, could heal the rift between garden, landscape and urban design. Absolute sustainability is not possible. But relative sustainability is a practical and desirable proposition.

Tom Turner

#14. The parents were too American, too aware of the rights granted them by their Constitution to accept injustices meekly. They could not be bulldozed and exploited as could the immigrants and the second-generation Americans.

Betty Smith

#15. Don't allow old traditions to become permanent mental scripts for managing your life in the present. Reason: you will not be able to transform yourself to think differently and be better as you grow with age and maturity.

Darren L Johnson