Cities Quotes · Page 63

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

— Bertrand Delanoe

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

— Joe Meno

I work while I'm on the move, so I'm able to book sessions in different cities.

— Brent Faiyaz

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also…

— Ron Currie Jr

I don't want to have thousands of people shot in a city where, essentially, I'm the president.

— Donald Trump

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

Different cities have different vibes to them, and New York is such a huge, thriving metropolis.

— Annie Wersching

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

— Stuart Pearce

College is a magic time. Yes, youre young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college experience... Then you…

— David Sze

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which…

— Alfred Noyes

I act the way I talk. It probably comes from starting out in Second City, improvisational theater. I can go from take…

— Samuel L. Jackson

Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight…

— Robert Farrar Capon

America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is,…

— Denis Hayes

Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days…

— Anthony Holden

If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city…

— Paul Coffey

I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face…

— Ellen Goodman

CM has always stood for one thing: Chicago Made. Chick Magnet? That’s preposterous. Girls don’t like me. I was born and raised…

— CM Punk

The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which…

— Lord Byron

I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the…

— Dustin Hoffman

I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown,…

— Everett Ruess

At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the…

— Ellen Hopkins

And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

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

— Erica Jong

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

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

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

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

— Michael Bierut

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

— Ed Westwick

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

— Sammy Davis, Jr

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

— Lenny Bruce