During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, the most… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
There was [ in New York] - some of it was this perception of the Midwest that I realized in this multicultural… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until… — Plato Copy Share Image
I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.… — Kevin Pollak Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago the Oklahoma City bombing seared the concept of terrorism on American soil into our national consciousness and proved that… — Jim Bridenstine Copy Share Image
I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops,… — Jane Jacobs 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
The City's going to be very very beautiful! Its going to be like a beautiful beautiful park in some places, and there… — David Berg Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be driving to work everyday and sending out my Starbucks order. I didn't want to be in New… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
From the air, Vatican City looked like a marble Monopoly set. The Church owned all the property from Broadwalk to Illinois Avenue,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die… — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty,… — Veronica Franco Copy Share Image
We live in an age when you can prowl the streets of major cities and find human beings offering themselves in store… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
Heaven is the most beautiful thing God has ever made, outside of women, God bless them!-And in fact He even uses you… — David Berg Copy Share Image
The war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Martin thought of the iron El trestles winding and stretching across the city, of department store windows and hotel lobbies, of electric… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
The people are immensely likable— cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I stared at the creased map on my wall, the thin green line connecting all the places I had read about. There… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation… — Thomas Naylor Copy Share Image
It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there,… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
The street is the most impactful for me really, always, and the Internet. I guess I'd like to sell some more light… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind o’er thy… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
I think the best actors in the world are here in New York City. And this city is just so vibrant the… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Goddammit. Yeah, I have. First, there's a huge difference between being arrested and being guilty. Second, see, the law changes and I… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Budapest in late May is a city of lilacs. The sweet, languid, rather sleepy smell of lilacs wafts everywhere. And it is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
January. It was all things. And it was one thing, like a solid door. Its cold sealed the city in a gray… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image