Quotes about cities
cities contact ifs
New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!
cities cnn devil
I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too. Drawn to it. Travelers tap their brakes to ogle the mutilation and mangled metal on the side of the interstate, and the traffic backs up for miles. Hijacked planes crash into skyscrapers, breached levees drown a city, and CNN and the networks rush to the scene so that we can all sit in front of our TVs and feast on the footage. Stare, stunned, at the pandemonium--the devils let loose from their cages. Wally Lamb
cities facts terrorism
And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism. Vito Fossella
cities liberty earth
TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty. Walt Whitman
cities liberty earth
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.
cities citizens interest
This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me
cities voice tables
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is. Rory Bremner
cities littles fargo
There is a movie called Fargo playing right now. It is a masterpiece. Go see it. If you, under any circumstances, see Little Indian, Big City, I will never let you read one of my reviews again. Roger Ebert
cities together wish
If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney. Robin McKinley
cities body
Every city is a living body. Saint Augustine
cities discipline trying
It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets. Wilma Rudolph
cities cameras painting
Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings. Wim Wenders
cities people london
Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it. Will Self
cities world shooting
It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline. Will Rogers
cities san-francisco mad
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. Rudyard Kipling
cities mind sometimes
I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them. Will Oldham
cities enemy made
Cities are made for enemies to destroy.
cities quality orchestra
There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full. Zubin Mehta
cities exciting toughness
I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness. Zaha Hadid
cities safety swim
Sure, it was terrible and all, but you have to ask yourself: If the whole city was flooded, why couldn't they just swim to safety? Zach Braff
cities hiroshima-and-nagasaki doe
Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence. Wilfred Burchett
cities police firsts
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
cities people dying
In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were uninjured in the cataclysm from an unknown something which I can only describe as the atomic plague.
cities russia water
Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy. Winston Churchill
cities imagination spurs
A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. Rebecca Solnit
cities community growth
How much should the state be involved in regulating the growth in communities when you already have a county doing it, or a city doing it? Rick Scott
cities paris world
Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world. Tony Visconti
cities sitting thrones
I brought you the truth about our city and the reason we are in it. If you aren't thanking me for it, you should at least do something about it instead of sitting here on this mess you made, pretending it's a throne! Veronica Roth
cities rebellion compounds
It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace".
cities stronger would-be
When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them. Rudy Giuliani
cities extravagance poverty
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. Samuel Johnson
cities squares wish
Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.
cities america shining
America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill. Ronald Reagan