Quotes about cities
cities joy los-angeles
Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown. Aldous Huxley
cities able life-is
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
cities venice genius
To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius. Alexander Herzen
cities usa one-day
One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA Alexander Graham Bell
cities wish vienna
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself. Adolf Loos
cities skins months
I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin. Adelaide Clemens
cities demon growing society stalking strength stress striking
Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily. Srikumar Rao
cities dwell heard marches paint rhythms songs
I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. Olivier Messiaen
cities generic means principles relying scientific statement theory underlying
My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest. Geoffrey West
cities confronted energy finance global health impact origins problems
Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That's where they - all these problems come from.
cities causes chicago
Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune. Alexander Woollcott
cities los-angeles seven
Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.
cities exciting
We don't know how many teams, which cities it'd be. We just know they're going to have a WUSA, and that's the most exciting thing right now. Heather Mitts
cities chicago bigs
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. A. J. Liebling
cities towns village
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns. Abbas Kiarostami
cities progress valleys
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Adam Smith
cities los-angeles really-sad
Los Angeles can be a really sad city. Adam Lambert
cities decision etc
Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen. Alex Steffen
cities climate use
Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.
cities littles never-forget
I'll never forget my little city! I could talk a whole day about it! Alessandra Ambrosio
cities space people
Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation. Aleksandar Hemon
cities soul geography
I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.
cities colour grew grown landscape lives love people river true
I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people who've grown up in cities so much; you may love a building, but I don't think that you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth; it's a different kind of love. Arundhati Roy
cities countries dress founded helped million success transition welfare women work
When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work. Nancy Lublin
cities lived san
All through my twenties, I lived in very walkable cities - Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New York. Elizabeth Banks
cities keen love mere permitted pilgrimage seldom travel visit
My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots. Paramahansa Yogananda
cities emergency manage present
We present the cities with emergency declarations and let them manage things their way.
cities fan horror maybe seen
As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs. Victor LaValle
cities information parts policy reviewed time
There are parts of that policy that haven't been reviewed for many, many years. It's time we take a look at what other cities are doing, see what information we can find and see what parts of our policy are outdated. Mark Johnson
cities interesting berlin
And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city Daniel Libeskind
cities design needs
And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole
cities humanity architecture
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
cities waste gourmet
There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city. Cornelia Otis Skinner