Quotes of: Sprawling Keyword

I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people.

James Jones

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

American Gods

For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.

Jandy Nelson

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.

Richard Lamm

Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.

Leon Krier

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

Robert Smithson

The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan....

Time

Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.

Michelle Malkin

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

Alan Rickman

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

Jim Harrison

The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl.

Leon Krier

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

Richard Rogers

I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.

Dean O'Gorman

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

I got tackled once in a movie theater. I was with my mom and brother, and then suddenly I got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter.

Scott Wolf

McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did is study very carefully where sprawl was headed.

Eric Schlosser

Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

Carly Simon

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

The Iliad

Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.

Harry Seidler

I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple.

Bharati Mukherjee

Sprawled out on the front lawn Looking up at an ordinary sky It could fall on me and somehow be The day I didn't die

The Vast Fields of Ordinary