City Quotes

A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.

Geoffrey West
- People
- Up
- Great
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Cyril Connolly
- City
- Morning

My mood, I say, was one of exaltation. I felt as a seeing man might do, with padded feet and noiseless clothes, in a city of the blind. I experienced a wild impulse to jest, to startle people, to clap men on the back, fling people's hats astray, and generally revel in my extraordinary advantage.

H. G. Wells
- People
- Men
- Mood
Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

Donna Rice
- World
- Friends
- City
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
Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.

Kenneth Langone
- City
When we go city by city, country by country, the majority of our hosts, our owners, are simply renting out their spare bedroom.

Joe Gebbia
- Country
- City
I could just go a few steps from the house where he stayed in Paris in 1906- 1907 and I'd see the Louvre across the river. From the corner of the Rue de Bac and Lille (sic) you could see Sacré-Coeur. It hung like a great vision in the air above the city.

Edward Hopper
- Great
- House
- Air