Quotes about cities
cities san-francisco magic
Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city. Terence Stamp
cities rockets pads
Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know Nikita Khrushchev
cities benefactors citadels
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact. Nicolas Chamfort
cities alabama kind
I'm always kind of hoping that I'll get a movie that shoots in Alabama so I can go back and kind of get a break from my city life. Nolan Gould
cities organization red
If it was in my control, Id still be wearing a Red Sox uniform, because its the place I know, I love. All of those fans, Ill always remember. But Im also going to another great place. Im going to a phenomenal city with great tradition as well, phenomenal fans, great organization. Nomar Garciaparra
cities new-orleans people
people in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it. Nora Ephron
cities venice turns
If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing. Nile Rodgers
cities kansas-city trying
You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper. Mort Walker
cities light magic
Cleveland, city of light! City of magic! Randy Newman
cities people manhattan
I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does. Ralph Nader
cities people dies
So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in. Rainer Maria Rilke
cities names mind
When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation. Seamus Heaney
cities oakland justice
A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent for Oakland's youth) can hardly afford such social justice follies. But a pushover Democratic mayor and an overwhelmed police force have left what's left of gainfully employed Oakland taxpayers at the mercy of professional freeloaders and anti-capitalism saboteurs. Michelle Malkin
cities middle
I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything. Michael Urie
cities desire coins
And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them? Seth Grahame-Smith
cities may stones
There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city. Sebastian Coe
cities towns london
St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town. Oscar Wilde
cities america criminals
I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
cities light evil
Los Angeles is such a mysterious place because there's so much evil in that city, but there's also so much light. You can be totally alone on a hillside and I love that kind of secluded, deserted rawness. Lykke Li
cities paris people
Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris." Louis Garrel
cities people islam
But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out. Louis Farrakhan
cities differences people
In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect. Lou Barletta
cities found-dead forever
If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the city. That is the length of time it takes this pollution to invade the body, after which it is there forever. Liv Ullmann
cities oddities opaque
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable. Michel De Certeau
cities mexico threat
I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City. Michael Nyman
cities people city-streets
There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty. Markus Zusak
cities russia snow
It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those who remained were firing into the blank pages in front of them. Three languages interwove. The Russian, the bullets, the German.
cities suburbs
A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach. Mason Cooley
cities desert caves
Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.
cities satire born
Satire is born of the cities it denounces.
cities taste fastidious
A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.
cities pavement cold
As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.
cities light rooms
He took a step toward her, than another, tentatively, gathering all his strength, as though about to throw a heavy switch that would, if his calculations were correct, bring light to a hundred cities and ten thousand darkened rooms. He was going to ask her to dance - that was all. Michael Chabon