Charles Olson Quotes

I like L.A., but I'm definitely a Brooklyn girl; I'm a city girl. I need the cars honking. I need the bright lights. I need people yelling in the middle of the night screaming at each other. I need all of that.

On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

I can still jump on the Tube. I don't want that to change.

I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

L.A. is such a big city, and there's so much going on. I mean, you know you're in L.A. when you can just hear sirens all the time.

When you travel across London, it can take two hours to get from one end of London to the other, when it actually takes me two hours to get up to Leicester.

I love cities.

It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.

I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.

We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens blaring, construction sites going, people shouting and swearing at each other.

I live in a flat in central London. I do like it there; there's always stuff going on. But I do crave a bit of peace and quiet.

I've got two bikes that get me everywhere I need to go. And public transportation.

In Brooklyn, I don't feel that I'm holding up people with briefcases if I catch a stroller wheel in the sidewalk.

When you're in N.Y.C. and they shut down one of the bridges, this is a movie!

I like driving; I don't drive since I live in New York. I don't have an opportunity to drive, like, ever.

In New York, the trains run all night, and the cabs are so cheap.

I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.

I've always lived in a city.

I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not appeal to me. It was too much hustle and bustle.

New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.

It's hard to find a place where you're out of earshot of some kind of noise.

How real can your music be if you wake up in the morning hearing birds and crickets? I never hear birds when I wake up. Just a lot of construction work, the smell of Chinese takeout, children screaming, and everybody knocking a different track from 'Ready to Die' as they pass down the street.

My wife and kids like the quiet and the countryside - I still find that kind of quiet hard to listen to.

In New York, people are pretty cool, and you don't catch a lot of grief. But in certain spots, man, it's over. If I stand in the same place for more than 20 minutes or 10 minutes or something, there'll be 40 people standing there, all screaming something different.

I come from New York. It's busy. It's populated. It's noisy. It's loud.