Quotes about cities
cities kansas-city together
Robert Altman made that movie Kansas City about the jazz scene in the city, and we saw that band all together, and that was an amazing show. That's what I got into. I like jazz. Nick Kroll
cities yield temptation
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them? P. G. Wodehouse
cities oxford space
There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane. Mark Haddon
cities scotland parent
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life. Maria Monk
cities careers actors
I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff. Paul Rudd
cities goes-on way
Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way. Paul Goldberger
cities community village
When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels. Paul Goodman
cities outsiders walks
We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously. Paul Auster
cities manhattan three
Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades. Jurgen Habermas
cities use ifs
Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you dont have mixed use, you dont have cities. Joseph Rykwert
cities impossible architecture
The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life
cities broken noses
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose. Nelson Algren
cities shortcuts needs
Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need. Rachel Maddow
cities purpose grants
What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity? Rabih Alameddine
cities names liberty
Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it; for such a city may always justify rebellion in the name of liberty and its ancient institutions. Niccolo Machiavelli
cities firsts chicago
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city. John Green
cities jail advice
Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison. P. J. O'Rourke
cities doe purpose
Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard. Martin Filler
cities league house
The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's highlights whatever else they may do. Although this is by any measure a triumph of city planning, the building itself is not quite a masterpiece, though very fine indeed.
cities people musician
I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians. Matt Cameron
cities venice doubt
The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners. Mary McCarthy
cities venice water
Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.
cities san-francisco bay-area
I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union. Mark Twain
cities organization car
But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures. Nicholas Negroponte
cities america new-orleans
The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind. Mitch Landrieu
cities darkness covered
The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator... Mikhail Bulgakov
cities america criminals
I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes. Oscar Wilde
cities light evil
Los Angeles is such a mysterious place because there's so much evil in that city, but there's also so much light. You can be totally alone on a hillside and I love that kind of secluded, deserted rawness. Lykke Li
cities paris people
Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris." Louis Garrel
cities people islam
But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out. Louis Farrakhan
cities differences people
In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect. Lou Barletta
cities found-dead forever
If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the city. That is the length of time it takes this pollution to invade the body, after which it is there forever. Liv Ullmann
cities oddities opaque
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable. Michel De Certeau