During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
The toughest part for me is the city - the people. They've got burgers named after me in Orlando, they've got a… — Dwight Howard Copy Share Image
Beginning 'Beloved' with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the… — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat,… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily notice too much of a change in the sense of the kind of matches that I have in say… — Adam Cole Copy Share Image
I absolutely love my daily driver Ford Raptor, especially since I live out here in the mountains of Park City, so to… — Ken Block Copy Share Image
My mouth opened. It happened. Yes, with my head thrown into the sky, I started howling. Arms stretched out next to me,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I used to live in a little city by the sea, and the feeling of isolation - it was not like living… — Lucile Hadzihalilovic Copy Share Image
Most people work fifty weeks a year so they can do this the other 2. Well the smart ones live in a… — Warren Miller Copy Share Image
And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,”… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
While in the city and its suburbs, I fed as if in danger of imminent execution. And I was able to confirm… — Sam Sifton Copy Share Image
The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I don't know. I don't like girls whining and complaining about wanting a man! I never liked "Sex and the City", the… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
My problem with being in New York City is that you really can't make a living as a comedian. You can, but… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
It is a good success to take people from the city to the forests; but there is a much greater success: To… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I want your first trip to be with me. I want to show you cities and landscapes and teach you how to… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I love just seeing shots of New York inside of a fictional movie that are not controlled. I do not like shots… — Greta Gerwig 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
There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not… — Euripides Copy Share Image
The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a… — David Berg Copy Share Image
I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones,… — John Guare Copy Share Image
In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker… — Kylie Tennant Copy Share Image
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
New York City revived around the team. I don't think you can look at the recovery of New York from the 1970s… — Jonathan Mahler Copy Share Image
Building the scene, going out and doing shows and connecting with the fans, cultivating the fanbase in all these cities. I'm very… — A-Trak Copy Share Image