Assembly line Quote by Cristina Martin

“The city had been built by people from innumerable elsewheres. It was a chaos of cultures ordered only by its long streets. It belonged…

— André Alexis

“The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to born. When the forms exhaust their…

— Italo Calvino

“What was it about this city, with its endless possibilities, that elicited such limited routines?”

— Hugh Howey

“It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as…

— Nelson Algren

“We want to make choices, and have some agency in getting lost, and getting found. We want to challenge the city, and decipher it,…

— Lauren Elkin

“A city is half beast and half machine, with arteries of fresh water and veins of foul, nerves of telephone and electrical cables, sewer…

— Dean Koontz

“There is an endless chain of cities, a circle without beginning or end, over which there breaks unrelentingly a shifting wave of laws. There…

— Michal Ajvaz

“In the inner city, much was made of early milestones. Later ones might never come. —”

— Matthew Desmond

“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes”

— Orhan Pamuk

“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces.…

— Rasmenia Massoud

“with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our…

— Mohsin Hamid

“He had a theory going about cities, that the dominant industry of the town filtered into every level of the place, from the architecture…

— Marcus Sakey