Cities Quotes · Page 48

I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy…

— Natalia Kills

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or…

— Erica Jong

I am ready to work, I am ready for this job and I am ready for this challenge. (on being Manchester City…

— Stuart Pearce

they have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August

— Janet Evanovich

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

— David Blunkett

[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."

— Dick Wolf

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head…

— Bernie Taupin

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than…

— Robert MacNeil

I always honestly dreamed of coming to Second City in Chicago, although I've never even been there to see a show. But…

— Simon Helberg

Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say…

— Eudora Welty

That distant day had a significance I could not give it then. So we wheeled and came back south towards the city.…

— Cecil Arthur Lewis

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

No reason to feel depressed about being depressed. A depression can be a golden opportunity to collect the pieces and build ourselves…

— Anonymous

I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every…

— Daniel Silva

There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a…

— Janine Benyus

I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations.…

— Vicente Fox

You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything…

— Laini Taylor

Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional…

— Kristen Johnston

It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like…

— Chuck Klosterman

The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in…

— Paul Tillich

Kissinger's major, and most lucrative role, has come as head of Kissinger Associates in New York City, founded on a loan obtained…

— Murray Rothbard

Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill…

— Erik Larson

Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things…

— Fran Lebowitz

One thing that's really interesting is not only the magnitude of the recent immigration into this country, but also its distribution and…

— Kenneth Prewitt

Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet…

— Richard Rogers

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

— Alex Steffen

Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

— William Cobbett

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi…

— Michael Bloomberg

There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make…

— Sebastian Coe

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was…

— Ed Westwick

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

— Cesar Pelli

I think different designers have different points of view and different strong personalities can influence the way certain cities are perceived.

— Michael Bierut

If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.

— Lenny Bruce

Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

— Carlo Ratti

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun.

— Edgerrin James

The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.

— John Henry Cox

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

— Grace Meng

Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have…

— Hilda Doolittle

When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness…

— Protagoras