Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Alex Steffen

Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.

Alex Steffen

Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I'll never forget my little city! I could talk a whole day about it!

Aleksandar Hemon

Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation.

Jane Austen

I was quiet but I was not blind.

Tommy Bond

We didn't talk about it. It was real quiet in the dugout.

Ang Lee

If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.

John Owen

Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.

Martin Yan

I enjoy the quiet life.

Rick Carlisle

One of the reasons it seemed like a quiet 37 was his shooting percentage. Unfortunately, we couldn't get him under control.

Jennifer Ehle

So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.

George Henry Lewes

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

Zig Ziglar

Take time to be quiet.

Swami Vivekananda

God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions.

Neil Postman

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.