Urbanite Quotes

#1. I have totally like an urbanite relationship to nature. I mean I'm not someone who hikes.

Julia Kent

#2. Jack London is a very generous description of my small hiking, bicycling, and canoeing habit. I myself feel like a weak urbanite a lot of the time, because lots of my friends are incredible outdoorsmen and women.

Nick Offerman

#3. I'm an irredeemable urbanite. I can't imagine living more than a five-minute walk from my fellow human beings. Other people are vital to my peace of mind.

Nick Harkaway

#4. It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

Laura Marling

#5. The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.

John Adams

#6. Knowing the culture is as important as knowing the demographics.

Tim Cigelske

#7. In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose that's prospectively boring to strangers.

Lionel Shriver

#8. 'Of Mice and Men,' Steinbeck's fifth novel, adheres to a simple dramatic structure, which observes the classic Aristotelian unities of time, place and action.

Jay Parini

#9. I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed.

Laurie Colwin

#10. The more restricted a method, the lesser the opportunity for one's individual freedom of expression.

Bruce Lee

#11. As a young girl, I was much more preoccupied by my flaws. Everyone teased me because of my long, skinny neck. To hide my so-called deformity, I was wearing a turtleneck when I was 3! Yet my neck is probably my best asset. At the end of the day, what counts is the entire package.

Iman Abdulmajid

#12. I won't be going to any New Year's Eve parties because I think they're naff. No one over the age of 15 should bother going to parties.

Julie Burchill