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
He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I'll go to a city, a school, and give a lecture because I can feel someone there. I inwardly see first their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I don't know. I don't like girls whining and complaining about wanting a man! I never liked "Sex and the City", the… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“I thought of the cool, fresh air of the city I'd always dreamed of living in. The art museums and trolleys and… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
A man has a choice. I chose the impossible. I built a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Bonjour to all the beautiful people of Montreal because this is like home to me. We had Sugar Ray Leonard here who… — Don King Copy Share Image
Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
While in the city and its suburbs, I fed as if in danger of imminent execution. And I was able to confirm… — Sam Sifton Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the… — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is a good success to take people from the city to the forests; but there is a much greater success: To… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
My problem with being in New York City is that you really can't make a living as a comedian. You can, but… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that.… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin'… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, gullible people and blinds them from the truth of reality; it can devour entire city's.… — David Spade Copy Share Image
City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Well I don't know what the city of Hollywood knows about foreign policy, but do I know that a lot of people… — Janeane Garofalo 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
City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing… — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
