Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Noah

The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago.

Clive Thompson

I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.

Alice Walker

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

Gore Vidal

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.

Bethany McLean

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

Bill Bryson

Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.

Bertrand Russell

I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

Jerry Hill

We could have other cities coming to us with similar requests in the future.

Susan Bandy

We have very strict rules about what we can and can't do in terms of the USOC. What we can't do right now is lobby, ... The odds are that if the rules had not been changed, all the cities would be talking to the IOC to get it to influence the USOC.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Cecelia Ahern

There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.

Carrie Brownstein

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

Carrie Fisher

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Bernard Berenson

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Benjamin Rush

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

Bill Vaughan

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

Bill Bryson

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

Bill Burr

If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it.

Marty Meehan

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.