A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
Typically we don't think of cities as being particularly extreme environments, but few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I am starting to like LA, but the concept of a place you have to get used to so much seems a… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love...… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly."… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
For He hath prepared for them a City! Hallelujah? He's got a City for you & me where you're not going to… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Paris is a beautiful city to walk around in. And, you know, all the obvious things: I like the museums, I like… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little… — Anna Gunn Copy Share Image
I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
I've lived in a lot of places - London, Germany, Tokyo, Scotland, Ireland, Los Angeles, and New York. The fashion capitals I've… — Sonoya Mizuno Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of our police are fighting terrorists, so we don't have enough oriented towards their key duty, which is enforcement of… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part… — Sebastian Bach Copy Share Image
Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
The problems with conventional parking meters are myriad. Nevertheless, two advanced technologies, multispace parking meters and curb-space occupancy sensors, can make it… — Donald Shoup Copy Share Image
It's a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Every man needs a good, solid watch. My favorite watch is the Presidential Rolex. I own many watches, but this one is… — French Montana Copy Share Image
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got… — Roger Clemens Copy Share Image
I find that people can’t find you. It’s kind of quiet. When I go to a city, I can almost always get… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake,… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I had a really intense flying dream most of my childhood into my teens. I would go out at night and fly… — Dee Dee Ramone Copy Share Image
I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Note that both of these papers [the New York Post and the New York Daily News] are big sellers in a city… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Chris [Nolan] comes at this with such a different take on Batman, so I didn't feel that I had to be true… — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities. — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
I've never seen America as being one place, but I think the record industry people I've spoken to - although they will… — Sean Booth Copy Share Image
I've watched towns and cities evolve and become very resilient, and fun, and unique, and prosperous on their own terms. And the… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Restaurants, shows, night life, art exhibits, readings - New York is such a cultural epicenter, and while Jersey makes so much sense… — Lee Kelly Copy Share Image
Women are still chronically underrepresented in U.S. politics at both a local and national level... But there is one city where those… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
I'm not defending what Cory Booker said. I'm saying I understand why he has to kiss the asses of the rich people… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some… — Plato Copy Share Image