Quotes about cities
cities proud
I've been around, and I see what other cities are doing, and I think, 'Why not us, we're a proud people,' Earl Wilson
cities people england
I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back. Natalia Kills
cities people potatoes
People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road? Nancy Mitford
cities blood lasts
I will continue to defend Najaf as it is the holiest place. I will remain in the city until the last drop of my blood has been spilled. Muqtada al Sadr
cities atmosphere way
The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman. Kate Chopin
cities smell library
I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users. Ken Jennings
cities realizing century
We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.
cities losing-control car
The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car Kim Edwards
cities people remember
Best Buy. I heard recently they are downsizing and I got sad! I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would shop there. I always thought Best Buy had a better selection and cheaper prices. Kerry King
cities architecture consideration
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. Kenzo Tange
cities trying lasts
It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time. Mark Twain
cities doe purpose
Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard. Martin Filler
cities league house
The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's highlights whatever else they may do. Although this is by any measure a triumph of city planning, the building itself is not quite a masterpiece, though very fine indeed.
cities people musician
I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians. Matt Cameron
cities venice doubt
The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners. Mary McCarthy
cities venice water
Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.
cities san-francisco bay-area
I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.
cities organization car
But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures. Nicholas Negroponte
cities america new-orleans
The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind. Mitch Landrieu
cities darkness covered
The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator... Mikhail Bulgakov
cities broken green
The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit. Mark Wahlberg
cities sanctuary immigration
Federal funding for cities who consider themselves sanctuary cities should be reduced. Mitt Romney
cities advice excellence
The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all. Protagoras
cities use ifs
Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you dont have mixed use, you dont have cities. Joseph Rykwert
cities impossible architecture
The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life
cities ideas mind
A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules. Leonardo DiCaprio
cities bully rugby
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city. Oscar Wilde
cities classical-music concerts
Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer. Park Chan-wook
cities trump
Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest. Padma Lakshmi
cities vision results
A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims. Leon Krier
cities numbers limits
A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.
cities facts skylines
In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.
cities interesting interesting-things
Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom when they gave me that part. Lea Thompson