I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch... — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Because of my acting career, I've had to bounce from city to city and get in the groove in the studio. — LeToya Luckett Copy Share Image
You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives. — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities? — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White. — Kwame Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and… — Richard Dean Anderson Copy Share Image
URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that… — Carmelo Anthony Copy Share Image
The urban, on the other hand, is often seen as more real and mundane, even though it is obviously far more recent… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
People with felony convictions - pending felony convictions should not be able to buy gun, but they should be able to stay… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
The US does not observe the free-trade principles. Those are for the weak. So agribusiness is highly subsidized and pours product into… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
A very awkward situation occurs often in New York City when you are walking down a relatively empty sidewalk and there happens… — Aaron Karo Copy Share Image
Honestly, you got to take care of the people that take care of you. I know that sounds like cliche, or borderline… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
My 13-year-old daughter leaves the house at 7:15 every morning and takes a smelly city bus to school way uptown. It's like… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world? — Rocky Marciano Copy Share Image
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be… — Wellington Webb Copy Share Image
I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola. — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event. — Irwin Redlener Copy Share Image
Western Mosul is the historic heart of one of the oldest cities in the world. Its narrow streets and alleyways are impassable… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city. — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
While wishing a beautiful snowing for the streets of your city, do not forget also to wish a warm house for the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich… — Arlene J. Chai Copy Share Image
If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney. — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image