Quotes about cities
cities house opera
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house. Alvar Aalto
cities architecture problem
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
cities balance gone
Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier. Anne Robinson
cities voice california
I noticed whenever you call information, 411, there's always a computer voice, and they go, 'What number would you like? City and state, please.' 'Yeah, I'd like the number of Macy's in Century City, California.' 'Did you say 'pretzel nuggets'? Andy Kindler
cities rome doe
When in Rome, do as Rome does. Ambrose Bierce
cities chicago strange
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it. Claes Oldenburg
cities mind cuisine
If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it. Anthony Bourdain
cities counties england essential government money pours regions spends support uk
If the government spends money in the regions of the UK it is called subsidy. But if it pours it down the gullet of the cities and counties in south-east England it is called essential support of the infrastructure. John Forsythe
cities dunk looked might paying slam smaller steve suggested
If Steve had suggested it earlier, we might have done it. But I looked at it as a slam dunk because smaller cities were paying more. George Stewart
cities cobblers charity
If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres. Alexei Sayle
cities design effect life living love lucky spend square talking trees window
I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well. Richard Rogers
cities skepticism built
The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism. Albert Schweitzer
cities decade face major solve spent trying
Major cities around the world have spent more than a decade or two trying to solve this problem. Some big cities still face this problem.
cities education excel places
Let's look at these 99 other places (honored) and see what kind of education they provide. What do cities that really excel in education do?
cities city condition large permanent safest york
Let's now make this kind of a permanent condition for New York City, that New York City is one of the safest large cities in America, and let's keep it that way,
cities convince everybody goals regional talk
One of our goals was to talk to all the cities and see if we could convince everybody to do kind of a regional facility.
cities car needs
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle. Dean Kamen
cities rumor knows
One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is. Eleanor Roosevelt
cities people the-end-of-the-day
[At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see that as a problem. Eduardo Paes
cities clouds june
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June? Edward Abbey
cities wells ifs
A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed. Aristotle
cities government evil
The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.
cities scotland next
Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us. Ed Miliband
cities serve works
Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them. Rose George
cities looks process
Most unfortunately, this looks like a long-term construction process for any one of the cities affected, Tom Kennedy
cities mixed
Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities. Joseph Rykwert
cities kids neither
Neither one of the cities come first, our kids come first.
cities definitely forward looking parks
Obviously, it's time. You see what the other new parks have done for the cities involved. It's definitely something we're looking forward to.
cities roof seven shroud
Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead,/ Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head. Thomas Heywood
cities discuss early impressed process progress
Sen. Hutchison is very impressed with the progress the cities are making, but it is too early in the process to discuss an endgame.
cities hire maybe scared women won
She won the first title. She got to 100 first. Maybe GMs in other cities will see what Anne's done and they won't be ? I don't want to say scared ? but they'll want to hire women coaches. Sue Bird
cities actors village
I come from a very small rural village in northern Germany, and being an actor never even seemed like a possibility. I thought you would have to live in a big city, or be discovered somewhere, or be born into an artistic family, which I certainly wasn't. Diane Kruger
cities people culture
What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide. Brian Chesky