In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women. — Mary Wollstonecraft 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
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
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
She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of… — Nancy Price Copy Share Image
Because our lungs regularly deal with carbon dioxide, they see nothing wrong with absorbing its cousin, SiO2, which can be fatal. Many… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
“Sometimes work was just what you clocked into while you were falling in love. Sometimes sex was just something you did while… — Choire Sicha Copy Share Image
Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs.… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis. — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
What I'm nostalgic for is the idea of an edge in New York. There used to be these fringes of the city… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Wherever Mantle went in the great metropolis - Danny's Hideaway, the Latin Quarter, the '21' Club, the Stork Club, El Morocco, Toots… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind. — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?” “No. The wind just blew… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in… — Robert Moses Copy Share Image
London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences;… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
This country belongs to all of us. We made this country from nothing, from mud-flats... Over 100 years ago, this was a… — Mr. Lee Copy Share Image
I always figured Metropolis was north of New York, actually. Between New York and Boston, in my mind. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry. — Jack Kenny Copy Share Image
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