We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired.… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant,… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who'… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
Then you get these articles about how unhealthy life is in the city. You know; mobile phone tumours - far more likely… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
I'm a city boy by nature - that's a big-ass oxymoron - but I do appreciate nature to the fullest because they… — Chali 2na Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Behold Vo Mimbre," Mandorallen proclaimed with pride, "queen of cities. Upon that rock the tide of Angarak crashed and recoiled and crashed… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red –… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring,… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them… for really new… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Yeah, no one really grows up competing in the bobsled. You have to be 16 years old before you can even drive… — Elana Meyers Copy Share Image
When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Have your name put in the Lamb's Book of Life in Heaven so you'll be sure you've got your reservation confirmed for… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Philly is a state of mind I’m always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it’s served… — M. K. Asante Copy Share Image
Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Man doesn't change. He keeps his habits. Instinctively, all those people found the same corner for their kitchen. To build a city,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit.… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I have the liberal dictionary right here...let's see how they define water-boarding: 'Something done by the evil troops, who we don't support,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
There hasn't been a lot written about it in the Western media. But in the Arab world, and Western Asia as a… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history… — Novalis Copy Share Image
I gave birth to my first son in April 1986. I thought it would be a good goal to get back in… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
San Francisco, America's B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went… — Alberto Salazar Copy Share Image
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Randomness has an incredibly powerful place in our culture. If you think about it, you can see it driving the algorithms that… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called… — Ice T Copy Share Image
When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
Even in Heaven, the most perfect City in the World, there are going to be different levels, different classes, different stages, some… — David Berg Copy Share Image
I have never lived in New York City, but a lot of people think that I am a New Yorker, because I… — Vaginal Davis Copy Share Image
