Quotes About Metropolis

I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.

I love walking the streets of New York.

When you go to the big city - you're in New York, Boston, you're in L.A. - you walk in the streets, and nobody says anything to you. It becomes so impersonal because there's so many people.

It's funny, but I always feel really safe on the streets of London. It's the most inspiring place to be in the world.

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking outside of themselves to see who's next to them. What's great about New York is that you get to be anonymous.

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

The earth is becoming intensely citified. "The megacity will be at the heart of twenty-first-century geography," Robert D. Kaplan writes in The Revenge of Geography.

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

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

far less than one block in Brooklyn.

But then, of course, it could have been worse. This may not be the best of all possible worlds. But Pangloss never met Murphy. And things could have been very much worse, indeed. The pyramid loomed ahead, separated by a broad river from the main part of an alien metropolis that had once been named Cal'mari.

What is the city but the people?

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Somewhere – or Nowhere, perhaps – there is a society ruled by philosophers. They have clean hands and pure hearts. But even in the metropolis of light there are middens and manure-heaps, swarming with flies. Even in the republic of virtue you need a man who will shovel up the shit.

Somewhere—or Nowhere, perhaps—there is a society ruled by philosophers. They have clean hands and pure hearts. But even in the metropolis of light there are middens and manure-heaps, swarming with flies. Even in the republic of virtue you need a man who will shovel up the shit, and somewhere it is written that Cromwell is his name.

The greatest food city in the world is New York City, just in terms of depth and breadth, variety, size, infrastructure.

Only people who live outside cities realize the size of them. London turns out to be huge; there are great swaths, vast panoramas, a whole diaspora I'd never imagined. The place I live in tends to be manageably small, a few familiar journeys and destinations.

London is a vast, complex city designed by the same guy who created the Habitrail.

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

But Cleveland sucks," Fox said—referring to both the team (which went 42-40 in 1996–97) and the city (once ranked among America's most dangerous metropolises by CBS News). "It's a lot of money," Strickland replied. "Bill," Fox said, "tell them if they wanna pay me $42 million I'll go to Cleveland. Otherwise I'm joining the Lakers." Rick Fox joined the Lakers.

New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.