Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
I've learned over the years that geography is not that important, except that I seem to work better in the country than… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out… — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
As I was whizzing around the United States on yet another demented book tour, getting up at four in the morning to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I love visiting LA. It's an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America's entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I paused for a light at Hamilton and TWlfth and noticed the Nissan was running rough at idle. Two blocks later it… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
A superb and dreadfully moving account of the glory and subsequent murder by the Romanians of the Jewish city in Odessa. .… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Hip-hop had become overly aspirational and shiny, full of vivid technicolors. Cosmetic fronting was not part of the ethos of our get… — Lyor Cohen Copy Share Image
My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school. — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city… — Anthony Gregory 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
I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person. — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man... — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
That was one of the reasons why I wanted to tell the story of Colin Price. I saw someone in this fictionalized… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Right after the show tonight, I'm going to the New York City car show. You get to see the models that will… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
