Paris is a city of centralisation--and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact,… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Two things are to blame for our predicament, one a corollary of the other. The first reason is that we did not… — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
All is made clear,regarding Abraham and Sarah's traversal into Egypt, when we realize what biblicists meant by the term "Egypt." As Ralph… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was… — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?" Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God… — David Platt Copy Share Image
I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
I'd never really experienced the West before moving to Colorado. The East Coast, where I grew up, has a lot of big… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share Image
When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and… — William Jacob Holland Copy Share Image
White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
...these things become the norm: that some homeless people die of cold on the streets is not news. In contrast, a ten… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens. If you come here and you work hard… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Cincinnati at that time was also beginning to realize it had major cartooning talent in Jim Borgman, at the city's other paper,… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the… — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
I've had the hat for four years and it keeps getting better with age. It's been in the ocean and the pool… — Andy Spade Copy Share Image
Nate stared, slack-jawed as the cab merged with the traffic and became impossible to spot. That was it. They chose each other.… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm going to stay here and see if he comes back," Wrath said as the double doors opened and V strode in.… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that aggressively going after wrongdoing can result in real improvement. Fewer wrongdoers in city government means more honest… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
“A city street equipped to handle strangers, and to make a safety asset, in itself, our of the presence of strangers, as… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Well, I have a lot of appetites and try to revel in almost everything, so inspiration can even come from a well-appointed… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
Historically, things were moving in a pretty good direction until the Reagan presidency. And then it all got reversed. The Mexico City… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Tess had said that the river was liable to wash the palace and the city and the whole kingdom off the rocks,… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as… — Annaleigh Ashford Copy Share Image
The right to express one's views, practice one's faith, peacefully assemble with others to pursue political or social change - these are… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If we can sell out a venue that's just as big as this in Omaha, if we can sell out DePaul in… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image