Cities Quote by William Gibson Download Open image “Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.” — William Gibson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Television Urban planning Way
I haven't seen too many similarities between Montreal and American cities. — Alissa White-Gluz Copy Share Image
I grew up watching British television because I lived so close to Canada. — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
I've done quite a few television shows in Toronto, and it's a great city. — Soupy Sales Copy Share Image
I think that may be the biggest difference between Americans and people elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians know that there are places just as real… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
You're always told in Canadian movies to make it look like the U.S. and people buy into the idea that that's the only way… — Emily Hampshire Copy Share Image
The biggest thing about growing up in Canada is you know that Los Angeles and New York are not the only places in the… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Canada is one of the few places left where the small decencies are observed. If, as a young man, I was scornful of the… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference… — Leonard Woodcock Copy Share Image
In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that… — Rick Mercer Copy Share Image
Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“No," said Blackwell, "she won't, because that would be a violation of the very personal terms I will have established in our conversation. That's… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Music was strange that way though; there were people into any damned thing, it seemed like, and if you got enough of them together… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me figure out… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“What happened to your arm?" she asked me one night in the Gentleman Loser, the three of us drinking at a small table in… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were… — William Gibson 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