Americans, they have an incredible operatic tradition: the Metropolitan Opera House is - if not the most prestigious - one of the… — Jose Carreras Copy Share Image
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals;… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Today, 65 percent of America's population live in metropolitan areas - and 95 percent of all the transit miles traveled are traveled… — Anthony Foxx Copy Share Image
The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre,… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company,… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world, because not only are they the best thrift store - they're not… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a… — Jim Foglesong Copy Share Image
That's the best part about being an actor though. One of the rewarding aspects of it is you're actually traveling in parts… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
The Conservatives hold rural places because they keep bombarding rural Canada with, "Liberals are a bunch of urban, metropolitan snobs who don't… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn't see it. Or rather… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
With more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements,… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it… — John Bright Copy Share Image
After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of… — Steve Israel Copy Share Image
If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York,… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated… — Richard M. Daley Copy Share Image
And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive… — Dave Reichert Copy Share Image
In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace… — Edna Buchanan Copy Share Image
I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then… — Richard M. Daley Copy Share Image
I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That… — Debra Winger Copy Share Image
When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
“Charlie Black: Fourierism was tried in the late nineteenth century… and it failed. Wasn’t Brook Farm Fourierist? It failed. Tom Townsend: That’s… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I grew up in the middle of dairy country in Wisconsin, about as far from any major metropolitan area as you can… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
It is not simply that these two cities are perched side by side at the edge of the Pacific; it is that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will.… — George Will Copy Share Image
