City Quotes
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What I'm trying to do is just sing what comes to my body in the context of the song. And if you go by the emotion of the song, it's almost like stepping into a city. Cities have certain customs and rules and laws you can break, and that's what I was doing.
Jeff Buckley
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New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.
Baratunde Thurston
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
O. Henry
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When I was young, I thought it was normal to go to sleep to the sounds of sirens. People on my block were in the biggest gang in the city. They were my close friends - they showed me the ropes, who to watch out for.
Emily Rios
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I tried to do a comic strip. I came close, and I met with Universal Press Syndicate in Kansas City, but ultimately, they did not go with my strip.
Jake Tapper
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New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.
Trace Adkins
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Los Angeles is an amazing city to live in, but the traffic is unbelievable. It's overwhelming at times. It's the source of a lot of frustration.
David Sutcliffe
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There's a Ford dealer in every city around the United States. They're the fabric of the community. They're either head of the chamber of commerce or the priest, or I mean they're just the fabric of America, and they took care of us.
Alan Mulally
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Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.
Margaret Mead
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What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I've been to most parts of India over the years, but Jaipur is my favourite city. Inspiration can be found at every turn.
Matthew Williamson
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I return link by link along the iron chains of memory to the city which we inhabited so briefly together:the city which used us as its flora-precipitated in us conflicts which were hers and which we mistook for our own:beloved Alexandria!
Lawrence Durrell
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We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.
Marc Morial
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In Rio we built a Center of Operations, a situation room that gathers information from municipal departments and allows us to manage and help decision-making. I can check the weather, the traffic and the location of city's waste collection trucks. Each of 4,000 buses in the city has a camera connected to the situation room.
Eduardo Paes
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I'm from Sacramento, and I have no idea what growing up in a city is like.
Lela Loren
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In the moment when you're doing a show, you're thinking of that moment, but you don't think of, 'Here's down the line how people will be relating to the characters.' There's something very universal about 'Sex and the City' that people are still tapping into, where every generation seems to be discovering for itself.
Darren Star
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I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.
Bonnie Hunt
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I screamed aloud that I was not afraid; that I never could be afraid; and others screamed with me for solace. We swore to one another that the city was exactly the same, and still alive...
H. P. Lovecraft
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Unreal city, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.
T. S. Eliot
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Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
Philip Johnson
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I enjoy running, especially in a new city, so when I'm on tour that's always a good option.
James Maslow Big Time Rush
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Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.
Ben Webster
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They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.
Denis Kearney
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I am really not clear in my mind what a sanctuary city is.
Patty Judge