Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Miller

I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.

Earl Wilson

I've been around, and I see what other cities are doing, and I think, 'Why not us, we're a proud people,'

Jane Jacobs

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

Charles Bukowski

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

David Nicholls

This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

Andy Goldsworthy

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.

Adolf Loos

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

Alexander McCall Smith

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

Alex Haley

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

Albert Pujols

It doesn't matter the numbers, it doesn't matter the records, it doesn't matter the money that you make. What matters is to raise that trophy and to be able to bring that smile to the city of St. Louis.

Anthony Jeselnik

I love Austin, but last time I was in town for twelve hours. I was exhausted, drunk and miserable. But none of that was Austin's fault.

Anne Sexton

It would be pleasant to be drunk.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I'm drunk but truthful.

Jim Carrey

I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral......they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I don't get the whole getting drunk thing.

Norman Mailer

You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.

Herodotus

If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.

Bryan Anderson

It was road rage. Some guy -- maybe he was drunk -- saw a sitting duck with a yellow helmet and couldn't resist.