Quotes of: Urban Keyword

Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and soc...

Li Keqiang

A lot of people have read the Mira Grant books who are not urban fantasy readers, and they would never have picked up a book with an urban fantasist's name on the cover, but then they go on to read my urban fantasy and like it.

Seanan McGuire

This is one of the blessings of the urban nature project: without the overtly magnificent to stop us in our tracks, we must seek out the more subversively magnificent. Our sense of what constitutes is expanded, and our sense of wonder along with it.

Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness

Get out. Get out NOW!

Our Life Off the Grid: An Urban Couple Goes Feral

The thing about waiting is that the longer you wait, the more impatient you become.

Chronicles of Urban Nomads

Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor.

Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness

Wonder feeds our best intelligence and is perhaps its source.

Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

Larry McMurtry

@K11, Urban farming; It’s something nice and warm for families and kids, but also references elements of the city. Urban Farming is very important for Shanghainese people because the city has lost its connection with nature. When you buy fruit or v...

Baris Gencel

In this cage, behind these bars, I think of you and me.

Caged View: A Collection of Urban Fantasy Short Stories

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot

Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla

This urbanization that's taking place around the world is very real. But if it's people that are seeking an urbanized environment out of desperation, that's not going to be helpful long term.

Mick Cornett

There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.

Chronicles of Urban Nomads

The bubble had subsided, leaving only a tiny scar, but the irrational fear of water never quite left her. I never allowed her to forget, not for a moment.

Chronicles of Urban Nomads

Small changes among the masses, can have a massive impact across the world.

Service: A Soldier's Journey: Counterintelligence, Law Enforcement, and the Violence of Urban Education

I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.

David Chipperfield

The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but it also rhymes with 'urbane' since the last syllable of 'urbane' is stressed. 'Lane' does not rhyme with 'methan...

James Fenton

If you have one wish, wish for everything to be exactly as it is. Then wait patiently for your wish to come true.

Barefoot Doctor's Guide to the Tao: A Spiritual Handbook for the Urban Warrior

Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’ at gatherings of amateur astronomers.

The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist