Cities Quotes · Page 41

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

— William H. Whyte

Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.

— Marquis de Lafayette

If someone states that Ajax played a negative game then maybe we are smarter than Manchester City.

— Ronald Koeman

London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.

— Sade Adu

“But cities aren’t like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver…

— John Updike

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

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

— Joe Meno

I work while I'm on the move, so I'm able to book sessions in different cities.

— Brent Faiyaz

The damned are in the abyss of Hell, as within a woeful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments, in all their senses…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Buffalo is one of America's great designed cities. The interweaving of great architecture, landscape architecture and important historic sites makes Buffalo a…

— Richard Moe

The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in…

— Geoff Mulgan

Gothenburg's definitely a music city as well, but I think just because of the weather - it's so cold and miserable -…

— Yukimi Nagano

Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite…

— Ben Webster

We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more…

— Sebastiao Salgado

The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence…

— Henry Miller

“Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what's right in front of us, but will likely arouse…

— Anonymous

We have to rethink the way we light our cities. We have to think again about light as a default solution. Why…

— Rogier van der Heide

Seattle is beautiful. You look at the sky and it's one of the most beautiful skies in the world, and then there's…

— Veena Sud

(with trout) we are touching something unrestricted, wild and arcane, beyond the reach of those who carefully maintain one-dimensional lives. There is,…

— Russell Chatham

At one time I was praying for the salvation of sinners, and the Saviour appeared on the cross by me, and talked…

— Maria Woodworth-Etter

The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and…

— Thurman Arnold

I noticed some time ago that neither of the candidates are quoting the founders. If they are, they're doing it so rarely…

— Paul Kengor

The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a…

— Mary McCarthy

The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.

— Christopher Rice

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

— Bertrand Delanoe

The role of the animal messenger in the dreams of modern city-dwellers is often to recall us to our wild side, and…

— Robert Moss

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and…

— Paulo Coelho

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

— Elif Safak

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

— Daniel Libeskind

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

— Vicki Baum

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.

— Stewart Brand

In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.

— Gary Hustwit

I'd love to visit Thailand just for the street food and the energy of a city like Bangkok.

— Bobby Flay

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

— Doris Lessing

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

— Yani Tseng

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

— Robert Smithson

When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness…

— Protagoras

Sometimes bigger cities, just because there's so much going on, people are a little more jaded.

— Hutch Harris

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

— Toyo Ito