City Quotes

And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city.

Haruki Murakami
If you're in journalism, the U.S. - and New York City in particular - is an exciting place to work.

Joanna Coles
- Work
- City

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Albert Camus
- Society
- City
- Desert
It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.

Susan Hill
- City
- Story
- Ghost
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Ezra Pound
- Poetry
- New York
- Flame
The fastest way to get around the southern Chinese city of Foshan is on the back of a motorcycle-for-hire.

Evan Osnos
- City
- Chinese
- Motorcycle
The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house.

Estelle
- House
- City
- Opinion
There are no tigers for us, just a city, waiting, and it loves us, in whatever ways a city can love.

Catherynne M. Valente
- Waiting
- Loves
- U.S.