So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My name is Tobias Eaton," Tobias says. "I don't think you want to push me off this train." The effect of the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“But ideal cities are very much the product of their own ages. Designed as complete urban statements, they bear the unmistakable imprint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can dispose of the constructive and inventive things that America is doing - and say, "Oh we… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
...nuclear warfare is not necessary to cause a breakdown of our society. You take a large city like Los Angeles, New York,… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Without running, I would have missed the joy of rain. What could be considered an inconvenience or a bummer to the inexperienced… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide.… — Clive James Copy Share Image
New York is just New York. It's a hard city, it's a hard city to live in. It's a desperate city. It's… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. You've probably never… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking -… — Harold Ford, Jr Copy Share Image
Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking… — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
[Kingston, Jamaica] is the city, it's not a beautiful beach. But at the same time when I go to Jamaica, that's the… — Kreesha Turner Copy Share Image
Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
When I'm in Los Angeles, it's hard to be creative. For me, New Orleans is one of those places that's like a… — Chris Thomas King Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
I am a black male who grew up in the inner city of Atlanta and no one ever followed me in a… — Allen West Copy Share Image
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
The aeroplane. . . is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the Ci-ty dreamed of an-other, en-emy city, float-ing across the sea to invade the es-tuary . . . or of waves… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
In terms of talking with my collaborators as they came onboard - Jeannine Oppewall, our production designer, Dante Spinotti, our cinematographer, and… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California.… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
I do a lot of walking around in game parks, rain forests, places like that, but it's not like I'm camping in… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
No one of Lincoln's old acquaintances in this city ever heard of his conversion to Christianity by Dr. Smith or anyone else.… — William Herndon Copy Share Image