Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The light went on when I heard Phil [woods] play, and I went like, "That is why I'm playing the instrument." So… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I just love building buildings. I'm the largest developer in New York City. I'm having a lot of fun doing it. I… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago the Oklahoma City bombing seared the concept of terrorism on American soil into our national consciousness and proved that… — Jim Bridenstine Copy Share Image
I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops,… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, the most… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.… — Kevin Pollak Copy Share Image
Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until… — Plato Copy Share Image
There was [ in New York] - some of it was this perception of the Midwest that I realized in this multicultural… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles,… — Bill Rancic Copy Share Image
Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol… — Roger Revelle Copy Share Image
I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much… — Florence Ellinwood Allen Copy Share Image
I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I get to be the mayor of the capital city of the most polluting state of the most polluting country on the… — Will Wynn Copy Share Image
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
We will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths. Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties,… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
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I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York.… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from… — Grete Waitz Copy Share Image
Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
![“The light went on when I heard Phil [woods] play, and I went like, "That is why I'm playing the instrument." So I got very inspired, I started going to clubs through a friend's mom in the city, again, another person who just completely opened all these doors for me and it was amazing how kind she…” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/844/jon-gordon-1655_cities_the-light-went-on-when-i-heard-phil-wood_443064.png)
![“There was [ in New York] - some of it was this perception of the Midwest that I realized in this multicultural city that - and I don't think it's as true as it was - but everyone was kind of like, what, are you Jewish? Are you Italian? What are you? You know, are you black? Are you da-da-da? Are…” quote by Jim Gaffigan](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c4d/jim-gaffigan-580_black_there-was-in-new-york-some-of-it-was-thi_2053648.jpg)
![“[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/360/kevin-sessums-9486_america_john-winthrop-was-the-man-who-first-said_3078197.jpg)
