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If you are in Mountain View, you don't resonate with the needs of urban dwellers. Tumblr couldn't have emerged in Sunnyvale. -- Roelof Botha
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers. -- John Sandford
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them. -- Arthur Erickson
Candy bar companies, through commercials, have tied their products to low-energy cues, transforming what was once a dessert into a pick-me-up for cubicle dwellers. -- Charles Duhigg
We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic. -- Henry Rollins
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. -- Walter Bagehot
All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides. -- Gloria Vanderbilt
New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day. -- Mangosuthu Buthelezi
We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong. -- Charles Glover Barkla
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. -- Benjamin Disraeli
My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life. -- Joseph C. Lincoln
My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences. -- James Buchan
For city dwellers like me who don't get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like you went to France for August, fell in love, got hurt, broke up, grew up, and figured some things out - all in 90 minutes or so. My favorite of Rohmer's cinematic escapes is 'La Collectionneuse.' -- Jake Paltrow
I lived at the Gramercy Park Hotel for about 10 years. It was terrific. It was a pleasantly run-down hotel of the '70s and '80s with a mix of older, rent-controlled apartment dwellers, Europeans and new wave and punk bands. The room service was great, the hamburger was terrific, and they had a doctor who made house calls. -- Paul Shaffer
Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things. -- Homer
Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate. -- Iris Murdoch
Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep -- Nazr Mohammed
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. -- Thomas Hardy
The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave. -- Beth Moore
We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough. -- George MacDonald
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world. -- Agnes Repplier
People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche. -- E. V. Lucas
My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them. -- Alexandra Paul
The role of the animal messenger in the dreams of modern city-dwellers is often to recall us to our wild side, and the natural path of our energy. -- Robert Moss
A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof. -- John Dewey
Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination. -- Ben Okri
A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet. -- Bertrand Russell
Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami.] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were single people and every one of them was mentally ill. -- Pete Earley
Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a tenant longer to get out than a burglar to get in. -- Sam Ewing
Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law. -- Margaret Mead
Why do we tend to consider ourselves happier than homeless street dwellers? If there is no money, no gold, no private property, no marriage, no religion, no government, there is absolutely nothing to trouble about. -- Elmar Hussein

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