Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My rage is gone, And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up. Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
But the pop-up suburb has an incomplete feel to it like something that just wasn't right, wasn't quite real, almost like a… — Anne Frasier Copy Share Image
Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally...… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
It isnt easy to put all of the ingredients together and one of the key things is this is the first time… — Lamar Hunt Copy Share Image
I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up… — Wavy Gravy Copy Share Image
I believe that Manila can be a reflection of your state of mind. Being a city of extreme contrasts it's easy to… — Carlos Celdran Copy Share Image
That the sight of people attracts still other people, is something that city planners and city architectural designers seem to find incomprehensible.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
The concept of who your audience is becomes more important than your site. Sometimes you can be commissioned to do a piece… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
Mexico City is the center of art and culture and politics and has been and continues to be for Latin America in… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
“[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East Harlem] says. 'They contain people with… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Currently, it was leading him through a neighborhood that was on the downside of whatever curve you hoped you'd bought your property… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
To build a city at the bottom of the sea: insanity. But where else could we be free from the clutching hand… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
In this new war, our enemy's platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers. They move unnoticed… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
There's always - somehow a red carpet everywhere. And I think that, you know, it's a fantasyland out here, you know. It's… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
“And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty,… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
“(2002) In Rome, month upon month, I struggled with how to structure the book about my father (He already had the water,… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
People of Baghdad, remember for 26 generations you have suffered under strange tyrants who have ever endeavoured to set one Arab house… — Frederick Stanley Maude Copy Share Image
Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeways, and spandex cost. Instead, everything else… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Another option, which I think is the thing that makes more sense, is this fact that the police are a reflection of… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow… — Mabel Cheung Copy Share Image
New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image