Quotes about cities
cities wicked bell-jar
Don't let the wicked city get you down. Sylvia Plath
cities pages naples
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid. Stacy Schiff
cities soul listening
I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music. Stefon Harris
cities alive amsterdam
I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It's fresh and so open. It's definitely one of my favorite places.
cities bagels fit
I'll show Luke I can fit into the city. I'll show him I can be a true New Yorker. I'll go the gym, and then I'll eat a bagel, and I'll ... shoot someone, maybe? Or maybe just the gym will be enough. Sophie Kinsella
cities shopping california
Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway. Thomas Pynchon
cities fame seven
Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head. Thomas Heywood
cities america rural-areas
Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas. William J. Clinton
cities community different
I need to conduct myself differently in different communities. In my experience, the journalistic conventions - you know, I'm the reporter, you're the subject, the interviewee - actually tend to hold steady much more consistently in rural Africa than they do in the American inner city. William Finnegan
cities way television
Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television. William Gibson
cities usa community
It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective. Westbrook Pegler
cities america shining
Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship. Sarah Palin
cities usa america
I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America. Sarah Bernhardt
cities body
Every city is a living body. Saint Augustine
cities ambitious orchestra
Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra Vanessa Carlton
cities fire gold
If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer. Vance Havner
cities taste architecture
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt. Robert Moses
cities feet tree
When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty. Renzo Piano
cities july republic
I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe. Ruben Blades
cities world respecting-others
Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world. Thomas S. Monson
cities yale tuition
I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition. Robert Klein
cities government should
Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it? Richard M. Daley
cities space people
As our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often forever. Unless we preserve these spaces while they are still available, we will have none to preserve. Richard M. Nixon
cities smarter productive
Denser cities are smarter and more productive Richard Florida
cities white snow
Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city. Roald Dahl
cities juxtaposition
Cities are about juxtaposition. Richard Rogers
cities city-planning architecture
Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
cities two gambling
Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by the lust of San Diego. Everything that was illegal in San Diego was permitted in Tijuana. When boxing was illegal in San Diego, there were boxing matches in Tijuana; when gambling was illegal, there was always Tijuana. Richard Rodriguez
cities mexican bourgeoisie
What has happened in the last generation is that Tijuana has become a new Third World capital - much to the chagrin of Mexico City, which is more and more aware of how little it controls Tijuana politically and culturally. In addition to whorehouses and discos, Tijuana now has Korean factories and Japanese industrialists and Central American refugees, and a new Mexican bourgeoisie that takes its lessons from cable television.
cities voice tables
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is. Rory Bremner
cities littles fargo
There is a movie called Fargo playing right now. It is a masterpiece. Go see it. If you, under any circumstances, see Little Indian, Big City, I will never let you read one of my reviews again. Roger Ebert
cities together wish
If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney. Robin McKinley
cities likes rooms
He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if reporters didn't overreact to a politician's telling the very same joke they routinely hear and tell in the city room, we'd get more humor. Robert Scheer