I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
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Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I… — Eric Davis Copy Share Image
Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was… — Dean Norris Copy Share Image
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their… — Plato Copy Share Image
Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The only way we'll have real pride is when we demand recognition of a culture that isn't just sexual. It's all there--all… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the… — Sal Albanese Copy Share Image
I am a Christian. He who answers thus has declared everything at once-his country, profession, family; the believer belongs to no city… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
“Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Chicago is the greatest of all baseball cities. I make no exception, although I have been treated well wherever I have been.… — Charles Comiskey Copy Share Image
I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
It's important that I get time to run, to just go for a jog for about 30 minutes. It helps with my… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find… — Eddi Reader Copy Share Image
Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker… — Kylie Tennant Copy Share Image
I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones,… — John Guare Copy Share Image
The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a… — David Berg Copy Share Image
I was in Philadelphia - a very angry town, Philadelphia. I've never seen a town like this. It's supposed to be the… — Andy Kindler Copy Share Image
For me the insurrectionary possibilities of disaster are what make them really interesting and sometimes positive - Mexico City's big 1985 earthquake… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Building the scene, going out and doing shows and connecting with the fans, cultivating the fanbase in all these cities. I'm very… — A-Trak Copy Share Image
New York City revived around the team. I don't think you can look at the recovery of New York from the 1970s… — Jonathan Mahler Copy Share Image
The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
I love just seeing shots of New York inside of a fictional movie that are not controlled. I do not like shots… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
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