There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to… — Shelley Berkley Copy Share Image
This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips? — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever take away the power and resolve and fearlessness of the great city of Boston. We will get through this.… — Joey McIntyre Copy Share Image
Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California.… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
“So he bought tickets to the Greyhound and they climbed, painfully, inch by inch and with the knowledge that, once they reached… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
I guess I was always envious of people who got to move to New York for college because they got to see… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It's people wanting to do something about global climate change. People fed up with the high price of gas. People tired of… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
Sitting eating sushi in the city, incredibly chilled out reading Nietzsche. — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die… — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens. If you come here and you work hard… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
No doubt Carter would describe the underground city in excruciating detail, with exact measurements of each room, boring history on every statue… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff. — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes… — Thom Browne Copy Share Image