Julie Christie Quotes

… the sweepings of the New York streets.

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.

I love New York, but I don't like how it smells like hot pee and garbage in the summer. I feel like Chicago isn't that way. Maybe I'm just being romantic.

The whole world is covered in graffiti. No one cares. It's just part of urban noise.

Baltimore and Detroit - they are solid cities.

The streets of New York and some wards of its venerable institutions were packed with people who, despite being entirely forsaken, had episodes of glory that made the career of Alexander the Great seem like a day in the life of a file clerk.

Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.

The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm outside Ajay's newsagent's. I'm on the expensive shutters of the health food store. I'm massive on Handie's furniture shop, King's Chicken Joint and the Barbecue Cafe. I thread the pavement outside the bank and all the way to Mothercare. I've possessed the road and am a glistening circle at the roundabout.

We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.

Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.

Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.

Cities are platforms for sharing.

The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.

To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.

When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.

Omaha is a little like Newark, without Newark's glamour.

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make somebody smile while they're having a piss.

If you're walking down the street in L.A., people do sort of look at you like you're a hooker because it's so rare to see someone just walking.

The pigeons are shitting on George M. Cohan. I shoo them off. They fly up and perch on his hat. Cohan would've never given his regards to Broadway if he saw how dirty they kept his statue in Duffy Square. New Yorkers walk right by. Nobody cares.