Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“For all the allure of speciously stress-free suburbs, for all the grinding of city life, cities endure. And when all those diverse… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
“Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Assuming that a tax increase is necessary, it is clearly preferable to impose the additional cost on land by increasing the land… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
The arts have long been an integral and vibrant part of our nation's cultural heritage. In its many forms, art enables us… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I always sort of talk about - to myself at least, or to my friends, about wanting to just keep life very… — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
There's a mindset in other countries that if you're an American, you're a Christian. Well, those people are sadly misled; they don't… — Tim Conway Copy Share Image
I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I'm awake all night, sometimes I see the people and the city waking up around me. I feel a little bit… — Burial Copy Share Image
When we talk about economic growth, we're not talking about bringing a bunch of companies in that can make a bunch of… — Chokwe Lumumba Copy Share Image
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”“The better we get at getting better,… — Douglas Engelbart Copy Share Image
As a city powered by our country's knowledge economy, Toronto will continue to benefit from developing, attracting and retaining the world's most… — Peter Van Loan Copy Share Image
I sometimes look at the careers of other... I guess I could call them contemporaries or maybe close artists; you know, the… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
The Jews celebrate Passover by eating unpalatable food to remind them what will happen to their people if they ever leave New… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Someone should have a record that doesn't have any singing. It's my favorite Miles Davis record. I love hanging out in the… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I like to use the analogy of going to the gym. If you go to the gym and your goal is, 'I… — Mitchell Joachim Copy Share Image
She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Only Ron's dog was watching William. He considered that it had, for a dog, a very offensive and knowing look. A couple… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
