Cities Quote by Kenneth Tynan Download Open image “A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.” — Kenneth Tynan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Immediacy Life Past Time Urgent
“A city finds its life through the humans who inhabit it. When they go, what is truly left? Just silent stones, witnesses to the… — Michael Puttonen Copy Share Image
A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and… — Charles Abrams Copy Share Image
“This city had been a city for two thousand years, and I could feel that with every step I took. bits of all that… — Carrie Vaughn Copy Share Image
Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well. — Julian Green Copy Share Image
“A place has a curious quality when you have only a partial understanding of its language, and in those early months the sensation was especially peculiar. At first I moved in a cloud of unknowing, the speech around me impenetrable, but it quickly grew less elusive as I began to understand single words and then phrases and now even snippets… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share
“How is it that people look at the same city and see such very different places? The answer lies in history, or, more accurately, in how people have chosen to remember the past. The habit of regarding culture and nature as binary categories has shaped how we view cities and their dynamic environments. The result is a kind of intellectual… — Matthew Klingle Copy Share
“Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life.” — Kate Milford Copy Share Image
“There’s no better way to get to know a city than to walk its streets. A place will reveal its soul through its sights,… — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time. You, too, are your past; often your face is your autobiography; you are what you are because of what you have been;… — Will Durant Copy Share
“You’ve lived in the city for a long time and need to feel that you have a hometown.” — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure. — Kenneth Tynan 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 to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. — Naomi Klein Copy Share
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 surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
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 think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that... I’ve always though that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted,… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share
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. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share