A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river.… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
San Francisco is the only city in America where marijuana is legal but plastic bags are not. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
You can't have a single design for all cities. The look and feel of the streetlights are very important. — Frans van Houten Copy Share Image
Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work. — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Its unfair to have cities where parking is free for cars and housing is expensive for people. — Donald Shoup Copy Share Image
Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland. — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel!… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Even to build a vote bank, you need to tackle the problems people face. Rural jobs that stop migration to cities, road… — Jitin Prasada Copy Share Image
I'll have to look into [Washington] D.C. a bit more. I know it's given over to the administration and the bureaucracy connected… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now… — George Washington Cable Copy Share Image
Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
“Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“With its population made up of two categories of people, those who do business and those upon whom they prey, the city… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
My grandmother told a story that when they used to leave from Southampton to go into the City, because he had apartment… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City.… — Aleksa Palladino Copy Share Image
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common… — Illmaculate Copy Share Image
That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
Los Angeles: A city I like because it's easy to tell who the strange people are. — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
For over 20 years, I have been saying that Chicago is by far one of the greatest food cities in the world. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' I don't think… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when… — Felix Rohatyn Copy Share Image
Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity. — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image