City Quotes
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Whether in London’s ornate arcades or Rio’s fractious favelas, whether in the high-rises of Hong Kong or the dusty workspaces of Dharavi, our culture, our prosperity, and our freedom are all ultimately gifts of people living, working, and thinking together—the ultimate triumph of the city.
Edward Glaeser
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I did Alan Ball's 'Five Women Wearing the Same Dress,' and then he put me in 'American Beauty.' Everything started to happen from all the years I put into the theater in New York City, and working, and having great parents who supported me through that.
Allison Janney
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I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out.
Jim Crace
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Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They've made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They're rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that.
J. G. Ballard
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I've always lived in a city. I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.
Ana Gasteyer
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A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was great in Paris.'' Because I don't think, proportionately speaking, that one's experience in a city as opposed to, say, a village in St. Lucia, is superior to the other.
Derek Walcott
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I work with a bunch of producers on every album, but the difference for 'Evolver' was that I couldn't get any time with Kanye. I forget what he was doing at the time, but he was all over the place. We were never at the same city at the same time.
John Roger Stephens
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La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.
Phil Keoghan
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I went to college in Atlanta, so I know that city.
Brian Tyree Henry
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I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting.
Katherine Boo
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I was going, but not now. None of us really want to go out. This is what happens when the city doesn't pay any attention to keeping up with things.
Eric Gill
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In the 1970s, New York was known as a place of great artistic production. Slowly, my city went from a place of production to a place of consumption.
Elizabeth Diller
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New York, to me, even though I grew up here, there's something magical about it. I remember, every time I used to go to L.A. for work, when I'd come back and get off the plane and be driving towards the landscape of the city, I'd be beside myself with joy. It doesn't matter how many times!
Carol Kane
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I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid because when you look up you just see buildings - and really, your first thought is to look in people's windows. So to look out of the space - out of living space - and look up to the sky, binoculars go far, literally and figuratively.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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It was a marvelous engine for doing violence to the spirit of thousands of laws without actually running afoul of so much as a city ordinance.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Ahmedabad is a cultured city with a rich heritage of craft and theatre.
Lillete Dubey
