Cities Quotes · Page 71

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and…

— Paulo Coelho

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

— Elif Safak

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

— Bertrand Delanoe

Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.

— Christopher Rice

The role of the animal messenger in the dreams of modern city-dwellers is often to recall us to our wild side, and…

— Robert Moss

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

— Brent Faiyaz

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

— Joe Meno

If someone states that Ajax played a negative game then maybe we are smarter than Manchester City.

— Ronald Koeman

Lets make no mistake about this: The American Dream starts with the neigborhoods. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must…

— Harvey Milk

The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its…

— Henry Adams

If you didn’t believe it before — and it’s easy to understand how you might have been sceptical on this point —…

— David Letterman

I think the book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] has meaning for any large city with urban problems. There are political…

— Angela Alioto

No special suits for game days. I like to keep all my favorites in the mix. I'm always trying to look my…

— Henrik Lundqvist

I love New York City for its energy. Pebble Beach, Carmel Beach and that all area, for its completely laid back energy.…

— Eva LaRue

'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a…

— Michael Patrick King

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities. My new hypothesis shows why. But also in trading with…

— Jane Jacobs

There's nothing that builds up a toil-weary soul Like a day on a stream, Back on the banks of the old fishing…

— Edgar Guest

The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new…

— Rem Koolhaas

Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light,…

— Walt Whitman

We need find the space to build more affordable homes in the city. That involves a number of different policy responses. For…

— David Lammy

The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

So "Grand Theft Auto," for those who don't know, is the video game series where players pretend to drive cars around these…

— Peter Sagal

I think I had the same notion most people have, which is it’s simply a town that percolates around country music. Though…

— Joy Williams

“As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity--say, while waiting to be called to eat--becomes less bumptious, physically and entails more loitering…

— Jane Jacobs

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of…

— Mary Jo Putney

“But cities aren’t like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver…

— John Updike

London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.

— Sade Adu

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

— William H. Whyte

Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.

— Marquis de Lafayette

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

— Janet Evanovich

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

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

— Bernie Taupin

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

— Dick Wolf

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

— David Blunkett

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

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

— Annie Wersching

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

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

— Donald Trump

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

— Carlo Ratti