Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
There are three major issues now that are becoming important, not only for cities, but for all mankind: Mobility, sustainability - which… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
I love going to the river not only to enjoy nature, but to think about the Los Angeles River's place in our… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
It is still the arena of those who dream of the City of Man and those who envision a City of Things.… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities,… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
After the occupation of Paris, Hitler visited Paris, which of course was a great jewel for him, and he wanted to go… — Joe Harris Copy Share Image
Most great filmmakers are good at place. Like how people say, like, "The city itself is a character in the movie," you… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Hi, this is Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger. I'm in New York at the moment, and we've been walking around the city, it's… — Bernard Fanning Copy Share Image
“You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Things are so busy and so quick, and there’s so much going on, you have to realise the time when you have… — Diego Klattenhoff Copy Share Image
The smaller the town the more important the ball club was. But if you beat a bigger town they'd practically hand you… — Smoky Joe Wood Copy Share Image
There were never a lot of attacks on my work. We were building more parks than were ever built in the city,… — Kwame Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
“He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows staring on seas of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I am honoured to have the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of my esteemed colleague and fellow poet Mr. Dennis Lee,… — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Copy Share Image
I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a… — Sal Albanese Copy Share Image
The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the, uh, '30s and '40s, the Brill Building was the hub of, uh, musical activity in Tin Pan Alley in New… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Even though New York is the safest big city in the nation, there are still far too many illegal guns on our… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Intercession is the truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer: no continent, no nation, no city,… — Richard Halverson Copy Share Image
At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10… — Hari Sreenivasan Copy Share Image
When I did Sean Penn’s movie, I think I was living in, like, a $500-a-month room, and someone called me up or… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bush. He reads,… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
There's an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o'clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs… — Moby Copy Share Image
When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
In 'Last to Die,' three children living in different cities are the only survivors when their families are slaughtered. Two years later,… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
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