I think that one of the visions that is closest to reality is the cardboard city in the subway station in Tokyo,… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
There is still one of which you never speak.' Marco Polo bowed his head. 'Venice,' the Khan said. Marco smiled. 'What else… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives… — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
A man inferior with the blade or with his thoughts can still so elevate himself," Entreri explained curtly, "if he can impart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
My first ones were The Young Rascals. I made out with Dino Danelli, the drummer, in the alley behind the City Auditorium.… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational… — Karl Popper 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
The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Christianity revitalized life in Greco-Roman cities by providing new norms and new kinds of social relationships able to cope with many urgent… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Abandoned by the existing political system, young people in Oakland, California, New York City, Quebec and numerous other cities throughout the globe… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of… — John Berendt Copy Share Image
We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s… — Herbert Muschamp Copy Share Image
“Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
All I know about 1970s New York City is that it's where I grew up, and you always have an umbilical connection… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It hit me that being hip was a full-time job, and I was only a part-timer. I couldn't hide forever that I… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“I don't just sit around hopin for nothing. I do shit. It's the 'hope' part that fucks that line all up. You… — Angela Flournoy Copy Share Image
From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
So, I mean, there's still vast swaths of the city that are suffering from a lack of jobs and poor housing and… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
Every time I would arrive in China I would go through a few days of depression from being reminded of both short-term… — Sze Tsung Leong Copy Share Image
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My ultimate game - or at least one I would really like to see - would be something where it was like… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“In Chloe, a great city, the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God,… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
