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
When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax, — Robert Moses 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
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
The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of… — Helen Slater Copy Share Image
The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it.… — William Hazlitt 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
They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different… — Salman Rushdie 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
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
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
New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find… — Quentin Crisp 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
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
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
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
I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of… — Anton Corbijn 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
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
