City Quote by Gail Jones

“The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms or models.…

— Cristina Martin

“And on the sidewalks, after they've emerged from the stations, after being sandpapered by the jostling and scraping that a city like this does,…

— Dionne Brand

“But I can stop on any corner at the intersection of two busy streets, and before me are thousands of lives headed in all…

— E.L. Doctorow

Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.

— Edward Glaeser

“The teeming scene in front of the station made familiar Tokyo look deserted by comparison. The street stretching out before me between rows of…

— Barry Eisler

“How strange tonight, this city. As if something trembled below its surface, waiting to burst through.”

— Thomas Pynchon

Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea…

— Jonah Lehrer

Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide…

— Antony Gormley

“The city had the air and movement of hysteria, and the citizens were crying, in every accent of anger and alarm, that the new…

— Henry Adams

A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.

— David Byrne

“Left to their own devices, people unwittingly redesigned their cities precisely as ants would.”

— Robert Moor

“That night, the sky poured out such torrents that the city was a drum set, every surface a source of rhythms, pavements and windows…

— Dean Koontz