It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The bombing in Oklahoma City has focused renewed attention on the rhetoric that’s been coming from the right and those who cater… — Bryant Gumbel Copy Share Image
Annabeth, thank goodness, would be staying in New York. She'd gotten permission from her parents to attend a boarding school in the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes,… — Sophocles 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
“If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model and the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister, then New York is… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I really only write about inner landscapes and most people don't see them, because they see practically nothing within, because they think… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but… — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
Fifty-thousand were gathered (March,27th,1933) in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco,… — Edwin Black Copy Share Image
as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair;… — Jean Hersey Copy Share Image
The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like… — Elizabeth Neel Copy Share Image
We are the lucky generation. We first broke our earthly bonds and ventured into space. From our descendants- perches on other planets… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to live in New York City. There was a guy named Michael Alig. He used… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“For when man is faced with a curse he answers, "I'll take care of my problems." And he puts everything to work… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
I was born in Quebec City, I've lived there many years before moving to Montreal and then Ottawa. And I mean, Quebec… — Andre Pratte Copy Share Image
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
We're crazy about this city. First time we came here, we walked the streets all day, all over town and nobody hassled… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities,… — John Francis Hylan Copy Share Image
“Heights plummeted because of a little disaster called civilization. "Heights go way down when we go into state society," says Bogin. "When… — Arianne Cohen Copy Share Image
People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
I don't think we replaced the Soviet Union with Al Qaida. I think we replaced, we should have, Soviet Union with the… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Anyway, who lives a rich and beautiful life that I know? It's no longer possible, surely, for anyone who works for a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dinocrates did not leave the king, but followed him into Egypt. There Alexander, observing a harbor rendered safe by nature, an excellent… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio 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
