Urbanist Quotes

#1. Our cities need to change, fast. Tactical Urbanism is a guided tour of solutions created when local people decide they can't wait for politics to catch up before they improve their neighborhoods. This weathervane book deserves a place on any urbanist's bookshelf.

Alex Steffen

#2. Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

Mick Cornett

#3. If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?

Bing Gordon

#4. To heal, you have to give yourself to the pain. You cannot avoid facing yourself your whole life.

Bryant McGill

#5. Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard? Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Steven Wright

#6. So often the woman forgets her own greatness and she goes a little bat sh
crazy sometimes. So its up to the other half to love that person back into the person we know them to be.

Jason Mraz

#7. Silence doesn't mean interesting. It could just mean boring. Sometimes you open the door and find out that it's a big ornate sexy door to an empty closet. Maybe the only thing you're interested in is the mystery, and you'll find yourself bored with what's inside.

Alessandra Torre

#8. The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme.

Hassanal Bolkiah

#9. My upstairs brain and my downstairs brain engaged in a game of risk and it was downstairs' turn to roll the dice.

Penny Reid

#10. In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity

Robert Browning

#11. People who stare deserve the looks they get.

Malcolm Forbes