Cities Quote by Colson Whitehead

“Neon flickered in brilliant colors on the really fancy buildings, while the older blocks and the ones under scaffolding were dark and unlit. Everywhere…

— Jia Pingwa

“The streets were awash with blues and grays – suspended in the air, bouncing off buildings, reflecting off car windows – as Brooklyn neared nighttime.”

— Abby Slovin

“The slick, chin-high tops of cars made an undulating surface that stretched away into the darkness in all directions; beneath it stood endless shadowy…

— Richard Yates

Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial…

— Virginia Postrel

“Storms pass by on their way to get all the colors needed to paint your rainbow.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The darkest storms color the brightest rainbows.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The street lamps glowed like ripe oranges among the bare boughs. Below in the wet street their globes glimmered down and down, to drown…

— Mary Stewart

“Trees, skies, valleys mountains, seen through the rain-spotted windshield, were like a distorted, stippled landscape painted by a beginner who has not yet learned…

— Stella Benson

“Rainbows earn their brightest colors in the storm.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The ugliness of the storm determines the beauty of the rainbow.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“In their simplicity and directness [neon signage is] a kind of urban iconography with which we can identify on many levels. — Rudi Stern”

— Philip Di Lemme

“The darkest part of the storm paints the brightest part of the rainbow.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo