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
How about those Olympics, ladies and gentlemen. Didn't London look like the place to be? New York City was in the running… — David Letterman 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 one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Some people don't have an open mind, and when I was traveling to different places I think I found it hard to… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
