Urban Suburban Quotes

#1. We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-suburban hip-hop settings. We need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.

Michael Steele

#2. Boxing has always been a primarily urban pastime (whereas the defining suburban sport is auto-racing, in which the machine and its anonymous mechanics hold far greater importance than the driver). When white Americans left the cities, they left boxing as well.

A.J. Liebling

#3. I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

Helmut Jahn

#4. Trying to corral the suburban stampede with a bunch of school buses was like herding cats. Actually, it was worse than herding cats. It was herding white people, earth's only species with a greater sense of entitlement than a cat.

Tanner Colby

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

Steven F. Hayward

#6. Andoya is in a different world, set at the northern edge of Europe in what seems to be a time and weather of its own.

John Burnside

#7. I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

Helmut Jahn

#8. The suburban mind cannot comprehend the emergent complexity of a New York sidewalk.

Robin Sloan

#9. It seems to me that the testimonies, practically, have come into that shape, that it is not of any use to try to defend the erroneous claims that are now put forth for them.

Uriah Smith

#10. For most humans, especially for those in modern urban and suburban communities, the most direct form of contact with nonhuman animals is at meal time: we eat them ... The use and abuse of animals raised for food far exceeds, in sheer numbers of animals affected, any other kind of mistreatment.

Peter Singer

#11. What puzzles me is the way that some of the smaller, unknown chateaux imagine that because Chinese millionaires pay ludicrous sums for the great names, they can overcharge for their own inferior fluids. There is no trickledown effect in wine prices.

Simon Hoggart

#12. I'm convinced that Theoretical Physicist is just another way of saying BS Artist.

J.C. Cassels

#13. To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.

Anthony

#14. To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

Dejan Stojanovic

#15. How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel?
We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

Peter F. Hamilton

#16. Folk wisdom: quaint sayings of urban sophisticates compiled from the suburbs.

Bauvard

#17. If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness ... if we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear for the other ... then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#18. The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.

Victor Garber

#19. The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

Marshall McLuhan

#20. 'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

Rob Sheffield

#21. In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.

Nancy Gibbs

#22. In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.

Jane Smiley