Big city Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“There was a big number over the door of the building. The number was five. Before the Americans could go inside, their only English-speaking…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“We closed the deal and moved to New York. Where in fact I had lived before, from the time I was twenty-one and just…

— Joan Didion

“I was at the barracks about a week. Chiefly I remember the horsy smells, the quavering bugle-calls (all our buglers were amateurs—I first learned…

— George Orwell

“He knew America, and even though he hadn't been there in fifteen years, he knew what its soldiers liked because of what one of…

— David Finkel

“We Built a Castle Near the Rocks, we built it out of sand. Our fortress was an ice-cream box with turret, tall and grand.…

— Jack Prelutsky

“intentionally so. My favorite was from a company in Texas. When there was a “fatal” error, meaning the system was going to crash, a…

— Susan M. Weinschenk

“The iron fettering on the gate read "Arbeit Macht Frei". "What do you think that means?" asked a man from behind them in line.…

— Paullina Simons

“It was a wartime story, goodies versus baddies, lots of explosions and shooting. The Germans always shouted 'Aiiieeee!' as they died. Atkins wondered what…

— Alastair Reynolds

“A word?" the Sicilian said, raising his arms. His mile was more angelic than his face Buttercup halted. "Speak." "We are but poor circus…

— William Goldman

“Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I…

— Charles Dickens

“Schaumburg was a town north and west of Chicago, and Mr Mahoney liked to say that he had been there once, to carry away…

— Brian Doyle

“In early autumn the farm recruiters arrived to sign up new workers, and the War Relocation Authority allowed many of the young men and…

— Julie Otsuka