City Quotes
-
This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
-
I look at Las Vegas, and I see the absolute best of what we are as Americans, and I see the absolute worst, in the same city.
-
It's hard to kill a city, but easy to kill a company.
-
Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.
-
There are so many musicians in New York, and there is this energy and fire in this city that inspires you and makes you want to learn and to get out there. People are constantly evolving and constantly creating here, and you get pushed along just by being in that energy.
-
When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league - Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle.
-
With undead armies, psychotic angels and exploding airships, Scar Night is a gripping, ripping yarn which rattles along at a great pace. Tether all that to the knock-out image at the heart of the novel-Deepgate, a Gothic city built on a network of chains over a great abyss-and you have urban fantasy at its best.
-
St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.
-
I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts of folks.
-
I fell in love with L.A. To me, it is the most quintessentially American city.
-
She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim.
-
I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.
-
I love Chicago. I think it's an amazing city.
-
London is the most important city in the world for restaurants.
-
I love New York City; I've got a gun.
-
Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people.
-
While I began writing 'Rules of Civility' in 2006, the genesis of the book dates back to the early 1990s, when I happened upon a copy of 'Many Are Called,' the collection of portraits that Walker Evans took on the New York City subways in the late 1930s with a hidden camera.
-
La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.
-
I bought the VHS of 'Into the Woods' at the Suncoast in the Park City Mall and watched it in the basement when I got home. And when it was over, I rewound it and immediately watched it again.
-
Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
-
I think being in the city is the perfect way to figure out what I want to do.
-
That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
-
Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!
-
I've always said that L.A. is the city of America's future. It is to the world what London was in the 19th century and New York in the 20th because of the growth of the Pacific Rim countries. We're the portal to the emerging world.
