Best Metropolis Quotes

45 Metropolis quotes by 40 unique authors

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis. — Anurag Kashyap
The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this? — Mos Def
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to… — Pope John Paul II
They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that… — Salman Rushdie
By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange. — Jane Jacobs
Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis. — Frank Miller
The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . .… — John Kennedy Toole
London is on the whole the most possible form of life. — Henry James
London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to… — Anna Quindlen
Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them… — Anna Quindlen
So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?” “No. The wind just blew me here.” “What?… — Gayle Forman
On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look… — Sylvia Earle
I always figured Metropolis was north of New York, actually. Between New York and Boston, in my mind. — Jim Lee
Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution,… — Eduardo Paes
Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis… — Peter Diamandis
Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I… — John Strachan
For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways… — Georg Simmel
The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another… — Georg Simmel
In the beginning, according to fossil remains, the Homo Sapiens (humans) have been productively copulating for a minimum of 150,000 years or so. It is… — Johnny Luckett
Drownin' in compliments, pool in the backyard that look like Metropolis. I think I'm sellin' a million first week, man I guess I'm an optimist. — Drake

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