Urban quotes
88 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!"
"Met shawty up in Urban Outfitters, she killin' these hoes now I'm murking out with her."
"By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities."
"A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go."
"Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan."
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"Keeping up with Urban Meyer is more of an Olympic event than handball."
"Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual."
"Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles."
"Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It's the most mainstream thing there is."
"Few would look at a concrete highway system or an electrical grid and perceive agency in their static arrangement, spaces and urban arrangements are usually treated as collections of objects or volumes, not as actors. Yet the organization itself is active. It is doing something."
"I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural."
