[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items,… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican. — Ed Stoppard Copy Share Image
We have this exploding prison population. We have the equivalent of martial law on a day-to-day, 24/7-hour basis in our cities, because… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts,… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The great cry that rises from our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and… — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite… — Joe Lhota Copy Share Image
No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been. — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
Our Lord never called His people to help build the tower of Babel in the hope of getting a Bible study in… — David Chilton Copy Share Image
The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide.… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Art deals with profound and simple moods. Let us suppose that the artist - in this instance (the artist) Picabia - gets… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious… — Noel Perrin Copy Share Image
Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. — Frederick Stanley Maude Copy Share Image
I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image