Quotes about cities
cities want speed
If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice. Salman Rushdie
cities world culture
I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
cities boston age
It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.
cities numbers telephones
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain. W. G. Sebald
cities honor sorrow
We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow. W. H. Auden
cities soul holes
Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.
cities six said
Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns William Dalrymple
cities majestic castles
Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic. William Cobbett
cities landscape want
I want your first trip to be with me. I want to show you cities and landscapes and teach you how to look at things in new ways and how to get along in places you don't already know inside out. I want to put some life in you... Tove Jansson
cities long decay
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. Urs Fischer
cities doe walks
The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas. Ursula K. Le Guin
cities knowing champion
What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world? Rocky Marciano
cities people next
Next thing you know, we're like the computer people for the movie industry in the Twin Cities Robert Stephens
cities jet-planes noise
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.
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 chicago protection
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection. Saul Bellow
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 people african-american
I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films. Wes Craven
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.