Related Quotes
cities decades economic elite families hometown local people praise society whom
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. Timothy Noah
cities cultural deeply dynamic fantastic flock nor people replaced seductive sorts useful
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. Clive Thompson
cities disaster far happily love moved nature people
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. Alice Walker
cities collective flourishes irrational madness man modern needs producing
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. Gore Vidal
cities chicago privatization
No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live. Bethany McLean
cities circles typical
Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city. Bill Bryson
cities lakes tea
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. Bertrand Russell
cities coming requests similar
We could have other cities coming to us with similar requests in the future.
cities influence odds rules strict talking terms
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.
paris
Paris is one of my favorite cities, but Paris during Fashion Week is everything! Brad Goreski
paris water achievement
I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.
parish
I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest. Justin Welby
parish
Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I had a way with words.
paris whatever
Whatever made you go to Paris in April? Vernon Duke
paris people
In Paris you're always surrounded by French people. David Sedaris
paris people frightened
People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.
paris parent rodin
Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it. Camille Claudel
paris france vomiting
I cannot prevent the French from being French Charles de Gaulle
london
I think Clive Owen could do CSI London in a heartbeat, Anthony Zuiker
london south
I'd like to make a movie in the South of France. I'd like to make a movie in London again. And, I'm going to make a movie in Amsterdam. Stephen Dorff
london pavement rooms
When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher. David Mitchell
london royal eric
I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me. Carole King
london doe justified
It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified! Camille Pissarro
london forget sometimes
You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else. Alan Rickman
london emptiness endless
London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness. China Mieville
london planning my-family
They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be. Charlotte Church
london wells objectives
The objective is to do things well in London. Dayron Robles