The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a boy I heard this story in church. A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Never! Never, Marge. I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We read our mail and counted up our missions In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
First New York was a sort of provincial capital, bigger and richer than Manchester or Marseilles, but not much different in its… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
Authorities in New York City have foiled a plot by terrorists to blow up the Holland Tunnel. There was one awkward moment… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“The two big cities of Australia are tonally as distinct from each other as Boston is from L.A. or Lyon from Marseilles.” — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Magnus stood up and went to the window. He pushed the curtain back, letting in just enough light to silhouette his hawklike… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime… — Judith Kelman Copy Share Image
The war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, gullible people and blinds them from the truth of reality; it can devour entire city's.… — David Spade Copy Share Image
The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How… — Greg Nickels Copy Share Image
Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
We discovered a person in Lagos who had a fish stall, and within a single square metre she carried two children all… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can. The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's… — Jeremy Piven Copy Share Image
