Metropolis Quotes

45 quotes by 40 authors

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. — John Berger
Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In… — Geraldine Brooks
She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In… — Nancy Price
I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same. — Mark Twain
The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires. — Rem Koolhaas
New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a… — Roland Barthes
Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence.… — Hunter S. Thompson
The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent… — Henry Mayhew
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the… — Mark Twain
Because our lungs regularly deal with carbon dioxide, they see nothing wrong with absorbing its cousin, SiO2, which can be fatal. Many dinosaurs might have… — Sam Kean
I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can… — Oriana Fallaci
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of… — John Gunther
I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of 'Supergirl' and trying… — Helen Slater
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and… — Mark Twain
At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost… — Joseph Lancaster
In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with… — Ross Parmenter
The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis. — Phillip Lopate
The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy. — Georg Simmel
When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax, — Robert Moses
The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure,… — William Hazlitt

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