City Quotes

• I feel like Havana has always been such an amazing, cosmopolitan city that it makes sense that a lot of galleries will want to be present.

  

  Rachael Price
  • Want
  • Amazing
  • Present

• A lot of the city boys in London, a lot of the hedge-fund, young city workers at the height of the financial boom were a lot of working-class, brilliantly minded young fellows and women.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Women
  • City
  • Financial

• I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

  

  Paula Cole
  • City

• New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance.

  

  Jared Kushner
  • World
  • Important
  • Culture

• One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Voice
  • Cities

• I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel.

  

  Andy Cohen
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Small

• Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's got to get up in the morning thinking of a deviant act, merely to make certain of one's freedom. It needn't be much; kicking the dog will do.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Freedom

• Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

  

  Le Corbusier
  • Life
  • House
  • Waiting

• Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.

  

  Eli Broad
  • America
  • City

• I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third year he was there. And when I was 16, I returned to Mexico to learn Spanish.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • School
  • Father
  • Spanish

• London is a great city full of amazing people from all backgrounds and when Londoners face adversity, we always pull together. We stand up for our values. And we show the world. We are the greatest city in the world.

  

  Sadiq Khan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Just by my home is an entrance to the sewers they used in the Warsaw uprising. I grew up knowing people died down there. Warsaw was once a battleground; then it became a morgue. It's a city littered with ghosts. And that never left me.

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• I love L.A. and feel attached to this city, but I don't identify myself as being a part of it.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • City

• When you get out of school, you just go where the wind blows: Here's an audition; there's an audition. And before you know it, you're where you're supposed to be. And that was Second City.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • School
  • City
  • Wind

• That would really be my fantasy - maybe just do three shows a year and each year in a different city, just singing for the people who really want to see it, and then just write for other people. I do love to sing, but I'm just as happy singing in the bathtub, you know?

  

  Sia LSD
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• For 'City of Ghosts,' I really didn't speak any Arabic. It obviously made it more difficult, but I also found it to be an advantage while shooting. It allowed me to focus on the emotion of the scene as opposed to just chasing dialogue.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • City
  • Focus
  • Arabic

• A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Time
  • City
  • Walking

• I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

  

  Kevin Dunn
  • School
  • High
  • College

• We will implement this consent decree because we know that it is in the best interests of our city that the police department and the community are working together so that we can resolve many of the issues that we face in our community.

  

  Catherine E. Pugh
  • Police
  • Interests
  • Consent

• The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

  

  Katharine Lee Bates
  • Life
  • City

• I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.

  

  Alex Kingston
  • Different
  • Live
  • City

• I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Country
  • Chicago
  • Winter

• I don't know who made the first Aquaman joke. I'm sure it was comics readers; maybe we all did. But it's the idea that the perpetuated story of Aquaman is that he only has powers in water, and he talks to fish. I think it's the idea of him in the middle of a city just doesn't make a lot of sense to people. It's just the character itself.

  

  Geoff Johns
  • People
  • Character
  • Water

• Indeed, I hope to spend more time and to be more effectively involved in the city than I have been able to be at the Fed.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Fed

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