Cities Quote by Max Beerbohm Download Open image “A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.” — Max Beerbohm ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Contradiction Quiet Term Uncanny
The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Getting out of the noise of the city is massively important for someone like me - an introverted, quiet person. — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
“People who live in big cities are deprieved, consciously or unconsciously, of those almost indefinable things on which our human sensitivity feeds, like the… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
My theory was that a city without a newspaper is a city without a soul. — Luis A. Ferre Copy Share Image
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
“As she sat here in the bay-window of her room, she was not reviewing the splendid pageant of her past. She was a young… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion. — Max Beerbohm 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
