Cities Quotes · Page 74

But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there…

— Frederick Marryat

I can set up shop anywhere. I've got my oils, I've got my yoga mat and I'm good to go. I must…

— Minnie Driver

But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a…

— Paula McLain

“... Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens…

— Tad Williams

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to…

— Tom Shales

We cuss them because we're not good enough for them. We hate them because they wouldn't look at us, couldn't be bothered…

— John Grisham

I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only…

— Anatoly Chubais

Suddenly it wasn't only a personal thing to me. I could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides…

— Anonymous

First of all, what made him [Duke in "Zero Year"] captivating is this sense of somebody who wants to save the city…

— Scott Snyder

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

— Ben Nicholson

During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming…

— Martin Scorsese

Good luck finding a place to park in New York City. And when you do, good luck figuring out the parking signs,…

— David Letterman

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

— Le Corbusier

“Winter is our time. They shut up their cities for the cold months. They put their horses in stables and sit around…

— Conn Iggulden

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated…

— Spencer Antle

I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.

— Arthur Cravan

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

It's a big deal in my city to have a breath of fresh air.

— Donnis

[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just…

— Junot Diaz

It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In…

— Don Cheadle

City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in…

— Bob Dylan

Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every…

— Bayard Taylor

Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them…

— Ingrid Newkirk

Berlin is one of my favorite cities in the world. I feel like the energy is very youthful. It has such an…

— Mark Zuckerberg