A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money, — Greg Oden Copy Share Image
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; It covers the face… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast,… — Bitsie Tulloch Copy Share Image
Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city. — Charles Roven Copy Share Image
If you've been to Moscow, it's a really exciting and great city, but it still feels like you should be a little… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
Chicago is a beautiful city. It's one of those places that people around the world see and say, 'Maybe one day.' There's… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because,… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“For all the allure of speciously stress-free suburbs, for all the grinding of city life, cities endure. And when all those diverse… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else - it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and… — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste Copy Share Image
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
If we’re going to talk about transport, I would say that the great city is not the one that has highways, but… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever take away the power and resolve and fearlessness of the great city of Boston. We will get through this.… — Joey McIntyre Copy Share Image
The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a… — David Berg Copy Share Image
I used to go to Maple Leafs games all the time when Nic shot To Die For here in Toronto. This is… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
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