Quotes about cities
cities long would-be
My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street. Andy Warhol
cities government joining
I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council. Anatoly Chubais
cities squares different
Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me. Anatoly Karpov
cities paris opal
the pearl-grey city, the opal that is Paris ... Anais Nin
cities paris giving
[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.
cities world letters
E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate. Anne Fadiman
cities political shapes
Each Catwoman is specific to the Gotham City she lives in and the director that helps shape her. So it's kind of hard to have a favorite and I'm not just being political, it's hard to have a favorite because each one is so specific as themselves. Anne Hathaway
cities becoming-one survivor
I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one. Christopher Plummer
cities interesting people
When I'm on the road making a movie in another city, on my day off, I always go to the movies. I love going to the movies. You get a ticket and sit there, and it's very interesting to be around people who aren't personally invested in you, in any way. They're just going to the movies Christopher Walken
cities people care
Washington was not just a city of marble buildings and smoke-filled rooms and power brokers, but also a town full of people who do care about each other, in good times and bad. Andrea Mitchell
cities sides seduction
Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides. Amos Bronson Alcott
cities two three
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems. Alvar Aalto
cities house opera
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.
cities architecture problem
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
cities balance gone
Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier. Anne Robinson
cities voice california
I noticed whenever you call information, 411, there's always a computer voice, and they go, 'What number would you like? City and state, please.' 'Yeah, I'd like the number of Macy's in Century City, California.' 'Did you say 'pretzel nuggets'? Andy Kindler
cities rome doe
When in Rome, do as Rome does. Ambrose Bierce
cities next unexpected
I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets. Anna Sui
cities people done
People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city. Andy Goldsworthy
cities people pavement
People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
cities crumbling-infrastructure serious
Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going to be in serious trouble. They'll be unlivable if they don't do something. Andrew Natsios
cities league four
Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for. Allen Tate
cities towns visitors
On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city. Alison Gopnik
cities
I've always lived in a city. Ana Gasteyer
cities hit release road smaller
We are going to hit the smaller cities on road after the release of the new album. Lars Ulrich
cities may corporations
A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities? Jane Addams
cities effort hull-house
The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ...
cities numbers justice
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
cities littles poor
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.
cities states boycott
I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state. Jan Brewer
cities middle-east three
...if [the 9/11/01 attacks] had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots in twenty minute and they wouldn't have worried about the consequences because there would not have been any because the remaining terrorist states would have said 'we get the message.' James Woods
cities people colorado
I lived on a farm with cows, and I lived in the city with rats. My family stayed in Colorado for a while, then went from Los Angeles to Arizona. People would ask me where I'm from, and I would have to say, 'I don't have a clear answer for you.' Jason Behr
cities towns decline
While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline. Jasmine Guinness