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.

Brian Snitker

We'll probably see him before the year is up. From what I've heard of him, he's comparable to Huston Street who's now with Oakland.

Kurt Barnard

June was a difficult month for retailers and it's also typically a month during which comparable sales are driven by discount sales.

Scott Hill

It is comparable to a real World's Fair that lasts 90 days - so does ours, just that it will be nine days for 10 years.

Robert Teeter

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

Rebecca Rausch

We don't see this as (an expansion of gambling) because it's something that the lottery can already do. It's comparable to a new convenience store going up that sells lottery tickets. That wouldn't be an expansion of gambling.

Mike Fritch

Nine losses in that league is comparable to seven in ours.

David Hidalgo

To find something comparable to that, but in our own culture, that was refreshing.

Michael McNamara

Growth rates (on sales) are comparable to what we saw before the hurricanes nationally.

James Gorman

Growth generally lagged in Europe, with only two nations - the United Kingdom and Spain - showing growth comparable to the worldwide rate.

Vivek Wadhwa

Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.

Bertrand Russell

Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom

Sam Pitroda

We need to increase that number to 25 percent.

Chen Geng

We will see a substantial increase (in the overseas production) by 2010.

Eunice Foster

We're working to recruit. We're working to increase the number of students that are in our college, period.

Aaron Adams

We're very proud of what's taking place in Old Town. We've seen a big increase in traffic there with all the new shops.

Derek Hall

UVSC is now the third largest institution in the state, and this survey shows that our support and perceptions have increased over the past two years,

Roy Barnes

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.

Stephany Smith

I think it will increase the noise because people are outside smoking and talking.

Joseph Grundfest

The pig may have moved through the python.

Rick Carlisle

We've moved on. It's unfortunate. But we're just trying to win without him.

Bruce Bell

We have not seen anything yet that indicates they've moved off their union-busting agenda.

Tom Daschle

We haven't made progress. We've moved back from progress, ... a half-measure only.

Trey Parker

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

Fred Kindle

We have successfully moved into a phase of profitable organic growth.

Jim Tildsley

We really played well in the first half. We shot well, passed well and moved well without the ball.

Dan Davidson

Politically, they just could not get it moved out of that icebox.

Rainn Wilson

One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

Yani Tseng

I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending.

Tom Schrader

The payrolls number is probably going to be in line, and we'll see another session of listless trading. But if it is something dramatic, we could see a violent reaction, one way or the other.

Cecelia Ahern

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

Carl Sagan

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Carl Sagan

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Bill Bryson

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

Bernard Arnault

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Ashton Kutcher

The number of lines in your forehead tells how many lives you've lived.

Antoine Rivarol

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.

William Shakespeare

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

William Shakespeare

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor

William Shakespeare

And makes me poor indeed.

Dogen

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.

Carlos Slim

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

Charles Dickens

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

Charles Lamb

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Thomas Wolfe

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Peter Thiel

I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.

Josh Pais

I live mostly in New York, but I teach in both New York and L.A.

Cathy Elkies

For us, it was really about the story of the Plaza. It is such a New York institution.

Jim Sims

He wanted it to feel romantic, seductive-elegant like a place you'd see in New York magazine.

Gina Rodriguez

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

Michael Musto

My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special.

Erik Estrada

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.

Tamara Tunie

I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

Rita Ora

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.

Lanford Wilson

I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.