Congested Streets Quotes

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

L.A.'s a lot of noise and stuff. You always hear cars and stuff.

Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.

My least favorite thing about New York is probably the traffic. I hate it. The people are such aggressive drivers here, they're horrible.

I like going down to London for a couple of days, but it's a place where I'd never fancy living - too busy, too lively, people on top of you.

London is a modern Babylon.

The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.

New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.

For me, God's country is sirens and subways and all kinds of ethnic groups trying to cross the street all at once.

I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

New Yorkers will be rude, but at least they do so out of the rationale that everyone around them is always slowing them down. Los Angeles, I learned, is a city full of people who have the personality of the coolest pretty boy from your eighth-grade class.

I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.

I wouldn't consider retiring to India: there are too many people, and it's difficult walking along the pavements. I'd love to spend two or three months a year there.

I have a 15-passenger van, which is not fun to drive in L.A. ever.

Shanghai was a peculiar city: so many people; everyone seemed to be working all the time. The skyline was beautiful.

New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.

Lagos is a fascinatingly infuriating place that its residents love - and love to hate. Licence plates on cars here proudly display the state motto, 'Centre of Excellence,' in what often seems a sarcastic swipe at the place we live in.

I just don't find New York as my favorite city, if I can say.

Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to live there. It's fast, crowded (in a good way), the people are friendly and it's full of color and race, like Mumbai. Unfortunately, the traffic's also just as bad.

Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.