Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
New York City is a fascinating place because it's very good at using the energy in attracting some of the best and… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Within the decade, Microsoft should have a minimum of 300 stores. They should do as well as the Apple Stores... [Microsoft] is… — John C. Dvorak Copy Share Image
I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I had no idea about where I was going. I had no sense of art as anything other than a problem to… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other… — Regina King Copy Share Image
It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate… — Addison Mizner Copy Share Image
We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Paris is one of my favorite cities, but Paris during Fashion Week is everything! — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
You're the reason why I'll move to the city; you're why I'll need to leave. — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
Cuba was neo-colony of the United States and still suffers a blockade. So, therefore, the consumer goods and so forth, we don't… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The only reason Toronto is no longer the dullest city on earth is that it is no longer full of Anglo-Canadians. It… — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
One of the reasons there may be a trend toward moving out of the cities, again, it may be conscious or it… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene. — Jesse Spencer Copy Share Image
London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The Houston Contractors Association is proud to endorse Council Member Oliver Pennington for re-election to Houston City Council. Council Member Pennington understands… — Jeffrey Nielsen Copy Share Image
I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
down the sidewalk where laborers feed their dirty glistening torsos sandwiches and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets on. They protect them from falling… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale.… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty,… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
Lavina led me to an abandoned warehouse. I think that at some point someone decreed that all clandestine meetings must be held… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
This is a regional fair that attracts people from the surrounding counties and from further distances. The fair draws people from as… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities,… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Anything less than total candor was bullshit. I owed that to my readers, I owed that to myself, and I owed that… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did,… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now… — George Washington Cable Copy Share Image
The treatment of the Germans by the Allies was at least as bad as the shooting of those Jews. The bombing of… — Otto Ohlendorf Copy Share Image