The city of Tehran is a very modern metropolis, and there's an emphasis in the Islamic republic on science and advancement and… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis. — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
“Simultaneously a frantic, high-tech juggernaut and a timeless Asian dream, Bangkok straddles like no other metropolis the boundary between acrid and sweet,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
Though woman needs the protection of one man against his whole sex, in pioneer life, in threading her way through a lonely… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
“It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
“[Soho] is all things to all men, catering comprehensively for those needs which money can buy. You see it as you wish.… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The great city seemed to weigh upon me, as though it were crushing me under its heap of brick and stone. Gray,… — Gary Inbinder Copy Share Image
Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“The New Tower of Babel and its fellow houses stretched their somber heights high above the cathedral spire, that the young girls… — Thea von Harbou Copy Share Image
“Did he not live in a town which lay deeper under the earth than the underground stations of Metropolis, with their thousand… — Thea von Harbou Copy Share Image
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. — John Berger Copy Share Image
To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator. — Fritz Lang Copy Share Image
I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax, — Robert Moses Copy Share Image