Quotes About Metropolis

L.A. kind of scares me.

I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.

My favourite view is just up the road from my house where, if you look one way, you can see Alexandra Palace, and if you turn the other, you get a panoramic view of the whole of London, including the Gherkin and Canary Wharf.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.

Los Angeles doesn't have as vital a theatre as New York does. And that's something that really interests me.

Shanghai is Asia's New York.

I just want to shine a light on the city of Chicago.

The common assumption is that public punishments died out in the new great metropolises because they'd been judged useless. Everyone was too busy being industrious to bother to trail some transgressor through the city crowds like some volunteer scarlet letter. But according to the documents I found, that wasn't it at all. They didn't fizzle out because they were ineffective. They were stopped because they were far too brutal.

there was language everywhere; you could read the city, the city was a grammar

Two days after this adventure, the emperor, having ordered that part of his army which quarters in and about his metropolis, to be in readiness, took a fancy of diverting himself in a very singular manner. He desired I would stand like a Colossus, with my legs as far asunder as I conveniently could.

The whole world ends up in London somehow

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

I don't know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can't see it.

Manhattan is just all bank branches.

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

New York is a sucked orange.