Top 10 Streetscape Quotes
#1. Just as a painter paints,
and a ponderer ponders,
a writer writes,
and a wanderer wanders.
Roman Payne
#2. Toronto's likable, but it could be a lot more, as I think Montreal is, lovable. What we need more than anything, I think, is a great pedestrian promenade. Pick a busy streetscape, close it to cars forever, and it will fill with people enjoying nothing more than the pleasure of their own company.
Andy Barrie
#3. For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
Pete Hamill
#4. Even the kids, behind the slice of streetscape floating in the glass, had mastered the art of pretending not to see.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#5. My life got happier when I trusted my gut to tell me when to open the door or close the door. There is joy to be found in keeping away from people & situations which could harm my self-respect my peace my worth.
Karen Salmansohn
#6. Bland friendliness is easier than spending even one joule of energy formulating an opinion on someone fundamentally irrelevant to you.
Elan Mastai
#8. There's an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o'clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. It's off-putting but there's a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment.
Moby
#9. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from the Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane.
Cassandra Clare
#10. House-watching is an art. You have to develop a way of seeing how a building sits in its landscape or streetscape. You have to discover how much room it takes up in the world, how much of the world it displaces.
Edmund De Waal
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