Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I am always a little skeptical on the water thing because I have been hearing that for 30 years, but one year… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
In Bogotá, our goal was to make a city for all the children. The measure of a good city is one where… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired.… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives. — Nathan Glazer Copy Share Image
There was no moon but the night sky was a riot of crisp and glittering autumn stars. There were streetlights too and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that… — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom. — Michael Flatley Copy Share Image
New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
The 1980's witnessed a new dance genre in New York City and Los Angeles. Slam Dancing was perhaps a way for adolescent… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Can it be possible that all human sympathies can thrive, and all human powers be exercised, and all human joys increase, if… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
The notion of a defense that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal… — James R. Schlesinger Copy Share Image
I was in Mexico City. It's a very pleasant city in many ways. It's vibrant, lively, pretty exciting society, but also depressing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whether you wish to admit it or not, when you approve, morally, of the bombing of foreign targets by the U.S. military,… — Timothy McVeigh Copy Share Image
