Best Metropolis Quotes
45 Metropolis quotes by 40 unique authors
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'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.
— Anurag Kashyap
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The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this?
— Mos Def
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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
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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
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By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.
— Jane Jacobs
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Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis.
— Frank Miller
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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
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London is on the whole the most possible form of life.
— Henry James
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I always figured Metropolis was north of New York, actually. Between New York and Boston, in my mind.
— Jim Lee
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Metropolis Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 45 Metropolis Quotes, led by these top contributors: