For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator... — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It was like when we went to Mexico City [Olympics in 1968] it was sun and shining and bright. When we came… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
People look at black pride in America and sport's impact on it. In the major cities it took off the first time… — Jerry Izenberg Copy Share Image
When we speak of the origin of western democracy it's precisely here, in this territory that the modern definition of democracy first… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty… — Matt Corby Copy Share Image
Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over the last… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I gave birth to my first son in April 1986. I thought it would be a good goal to get back in… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the… — Chris Noth 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
I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night.… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
It is amazing to me how deeply into the popular culture the creature has become. There are zombie walks in every major… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
I think different designers have different points of view and different strong personalities can influence the way certain cities are perceived. — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what… — Chris Harrison Copy Share Image
What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity… — Allen West Copy Share Image
Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to… — Trent Jamieson Copy Share Image
One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the… — Julia Gregson Copy Share Image