I think the book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] has meaning for any large city with urban problems. There are political… — Angela Alioto Copy Share Image
Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going… — Andrew Natsios Copy Share Image
In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. — Aldous Huxley 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
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
...nuclear warfare is not necessary to cause a breakdown of our society. You take a large city like Los Angeles, New York,… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself. — Kenneth Tynan 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
For the most part Ho Chi Minh City is safe but like any large city you need to pay attention to what's… — Doug Rice Copy Share Image
The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As… — Minoru Mori Copy Share Image
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
So much of the violence in the movies is b.s. violence: A guy in the middle of a large city with 14… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Sometimes we get wrong notions, we think we have to be in a luxurious house, in a large city, with a new… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image