Quotes about cities
cities boards band
You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City, I'm part of the greatest band in the world. Am I happy with that? No, I'm not! I want more! Noel Gallagher
cities people challenges
I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while we're shooting, and that's always a challenge because unfortunately people on the street don't know not to look in the camera or interact with the actors. Noah Baumbach
cities pay london
London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay. Neil Gaiman
cities firsts towns
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.
cities healthy london
Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.
cities people evening
Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor. John Norquist
cities program devalue
The highway program devalues the tax base of a city.
cities america europe
Highways dont belong in cities. Period. Europe didnt do it. America did. And our cities have paid the price.
cities fans looks
I must admit, even my fans everywhere I go in the world - just this week I was in London and Glasgow and the week before I was in Des Moines - my fans all look the same in all those cities - they look great! John Waters
cities film made
I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and turned it into something positive.
cities mountain use
American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. John Steinbeck
cities paris san-francisco
Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.
cities airports layers
I like to layer when I fly - the climate always changes from the airport to the plane to the new city. Shay Mitchell
cities san-francisco magic
Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city. Terence Stamp
cities rockets pads
Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know Nikita Khrushchev
cities benefactors citadels
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact. Nicolas Chamfort
cities alabama kind
I'm always kind of hoping that I'll get a movie that shoots in Alabama so I can go back and kind of get a break from my city life. Nolan Gould
cities organization red
If it was in my control, Id still be wearing a Red Sox uniform, because its the place I know, I love. All of those fans, Ill always remember. But Im also going to another great place. Im going to a phenomenal city with great tradition as well, phenomenal fans, great organization. Nomar Garciaparra
cities new-orleans people
people in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it. Nora Ephron
cities venice turns
If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing. Nile Rodgers
cities kansas-city trying
You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper. Mort Walker
cities iphone people
LA isn’t a walking city, or a subway city, so if someone isn’t in my house or my car we’ll never be together, not even for a moment. And just to be absolutely sure of that, when I leave my car my iPhone escorts me, letting everyone else in the post office know that I’m not really with them, I’m with my own people, who are so hilarious that I can’t help smiling to myself as I text them back. Miranda July
cities firsts literature
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. Mignon McLaughlin
cities boring
Some cities are really boring and straight. Johnny Marr
cities mayors resources
That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city Maxine Waters
cities quiet contradiction
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral. Max Beerbohm
cities community african-american
There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities. Mark Shields
cities flood
Washington is a city of money. It's a flood of money.
cities danger mates
There isn’t a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger. Patricia Briggs
cities kansas-city able
I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young Pat Metheny
cities accepting bigs
I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city. Paula Cole
cities bolivia extraordinary
La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city. Phil Keoghan
cities architecture automobile
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture. Philip Johnson