Cities Quote by Colson Whitehead Download Open image “The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone,” — Colson Whitehead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities City City Knows Inspirational Knows Knows Better Life Love Person Seen Persons Seen
There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you. — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
If it's in your personality to get out and talk to people, then you get to see what it is that city has to… — Chali 2na Copy Share Image
Living alone in the city as it breaths and swells with people is never more a lonely feeling. — Jacob Mitchek Copy Share Image
In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not-only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that… — Chris Messina Copy Share Image
Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well. — Julian Green Copy Share Image
“The city is where you go to hide, she said. In the country, in small towns or in the fields or forests, everybody sees… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where I am… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Every Tuesday, James Fulton (and later, Orville Lever) stood in the downstairs drawing room and lectured on the intricacies of his science. Lectured on… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The Great War had always been between the white and the black. It always would be. Cora” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The worst sort of scoundrels took up the chase. Drunkards, incorrigibles, poor whites who didn’t even own shoes delighted in this opportunity to scourge… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration. … Once your subject finds you, it’s like falling… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“its terms? Homer watched her as she dressed, like a valet who had waited on her since the cradle. “I’m caught,” Cora said. “You… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
These days I find myself wanting to avoid being pigeon-holed, ghettoized, held in a different category than other authors. And when people ask me… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in an alternative… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image