I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
In terms of any sacrifices at the time [of World War II], I was somewhat protected living on a small farm where… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I know people want to run for public office, for mayor, for city council. These are people who now want to change… — Jonathan Tasini Copy Share Image
The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments,… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked… — David Simon Copy Share Image
I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just… — Rachel Boston Copy Share Image
There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city [of… — Alasdair MacLean 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
Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the Ci-ty dreamed of an-other, en-emy city, float-ing across the sea to invade the es-tuary . . . or of waves… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
In the Great War, there is no room for the faint-hearted, the cowardly. A criminal or an anarchist will be better conditioned… — Miguel Serrano Copy Share Image
“New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the gate of the… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
I would love an extension, who wouldn't? If they offer me a $35 million-a-year extension, I'll sign it right now. I won't… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
“Do you remember the long orphanage of the train stations We crossed cities that turn-tabled all day And vomited at night the… — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost… — Terry Pratchett 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
Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?' 'London.… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately… — Vito Fossella Copy Share Image
Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance… — Leonard Woodcock Copy Share Image
He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I seem to respond most to places that are more cosmopolitan because of my Manhattan upbringing. Some of the major international cities… — Bobby Flay Copy Share Image
It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
My favorite place in the whole world is Nashville. Because it's my home, it's Music City. It's like, everybody there is so… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
East St. Louis-which the local press refers to as "an inner city without an outer city"-has some of the sickest children in… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I think cities are the primordial forests of our time. We evolve faster as a species in cities. Cities are chaotic, liminal… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image