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I saw that Donald Trump is selling his penthouse suite at the Trump Park Avenue building here in New York City for… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
When ever the light of civilization faces upon you with a blighting power...go to the wilderness...Dull business routine, the fierce passions of… — Estwick Evans Copy Share Image
Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work. — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
The feeling of New Orleans is so pervasive. It's such a strange and decadent and enchanted embrace that that city has. There's… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Up until now, I believed the nuclear threat to the U.S. from Iran was limited to the ability of terrorists to penetrate… — Joseph Farah Copy Share Image
Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future. From this day forward, the millions… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
Flown Raven is the country,"I muttered. "City slave," he said. "Farm boy," I shot back. "I've never even seen a farm." "Don't… — Moira J. Moore Copy Share Image
I will fix it. I will make it good. I'll bring back our jobs. We'll have good education. We'll have great safety… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There are fewer Arabs in Tel Aviv, one of the largest cities in the Middle East, than there are in Chicago, the… — Max Blumenthal Copy Share Image
The same advice my commanding officer at Patrol Squadron 17, Cmdr. Robert J. Quinn, gave me before I was grilled to be… — Pete Olson Copy Share Image
Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Things are so busy and so quick, and there’s so much going on, you have to realise the time when you have… — Diego Klattenhoff Copy Share Image
In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Each hamlet or village or town should be a place, its own place. This is not a matter of fake historicism or… — Robert Christopher Riley Copy Share Image
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Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
One important role for the city is to conduct studies to document areas of greatest need, and to facilitate coordination between our… — Mark Noble Copy Share Image
Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives. — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
It will be interesting to see if Seoul's urban vocabulary of numerous, ever-present interactive screens will translate to other cities such as… — Jan Chipchase Copy Share Image
Detroit is an urban hell. But even in this city of the dying auto industry, there is reason to hope, if they… — Charles Landry Copy Share Image
I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties,… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness — Clarence Stein Copy Share Image
You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
They may be smarter than you. They may have more money than you. They may come from a different city or a… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities… — Greg Nickels Copy Share Image
No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
When we are fully mindful of the transience of things - an impending return home from an overseas adventure, a graduation, our… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
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