American cities Quote by Cecil Beaton Download Open image “San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities” — Cecil Beaton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare American cities Cities European European American Francisco European San francisco York
Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful. — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
San Francisco is like, the most expensive city to live in, in the United States. — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
I love New York, Chicago, London, St. Bart's and Italy but one of my fave cities in the whole world is San Francisco. Why?… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image
San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world - one of the really urbane communities in the United States -… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
“This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America” — Ilya Ilf, Yevgeni Petrov Copy Share Image
San Francisco has always been a really special city to us. Every time we go, it holds that magic for us. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
San Francisco is a City for everyone and our government needs to work for all of our residents. — London Breed Copy Share Image
San Francisco is the microcosm for what's happening all over the world. — Alexandra C. Pelosi Copy Share Image
The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success. — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
“Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers.” — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill) — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left. — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Texas Gov. Rick Perry referred to the Mexican city of Juarez as the most dangerous city in America. In his defense, he probably just… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses not to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and… — Alan Autry Copy Share Image
In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city. — Tom Piazza Copy Share Image
While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness. — John Henry Cox Copy Share Image
I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a city that… — John Green Copy Share Image