Quotes About Metropolis

London is the clearing-house of the world.

If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.

New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America.

I am not a country girl at all. I tried the whole country dream and it didn't work for me. I need the madness and pandemonium of a city around me.

Do I like Manhattan? No. Do I want to be in Manhattan? No.

I love Manhattan.

I love living in Manhattan, but every time I leave, I say that I'm so happy I'm leaving.

No one noticed them, which was just as it should have been; and life in the city went on….

The city is a device for measuring time.

Et puis aussi, c'était New York, où les gens ne posent pas de questions.

Forse in quella metropoli la folla era davvero essenziale all'individuo, perché senza di essa non c'era nulla contro cui rivolgere la propria rabbia, mancava l'eco del proprio dolore, si dissolveva ogni prova concreta dell'esistenza di persone ancora più sole al mondo.

It won't take much of a city to be a city for me

Starships were settlements in the sky. Some were villages; Ultimatum was a great metropolis. And yet even Star Destroyers functioned like small towns. A big sink full of gossip—and as with small towns, the contents all tended to flow toward one person, like water to a drain.

New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost.

The typical metrosexual is a young man with money to spend, living in or within easy reach of a metropolis — because that's where all the best shops, clubs, gyms and hairdressers are. He might be officially gay, straight or bisexual, but this is utterly immaterial because he has clearly taken himself as his own love object and pleasure as his sexual preference.

It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

In 63 BCE the city of Rome was a vast metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, larger than any other in Europe before the nineteenth century; and, although as yet it had no emperors, it ruled over an empire stretching from Spain to Syria, from the South of France to the Sahara. It was a sprawling mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and

In 63 BCE the city of Rome was a vast metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, larger than any other in Europe before the nineteenth century;

I'm aware that New York is a toilet bowl–but an expensive porcelain one.

New York City is a place where everyone lived on top of each other, and that was exactly how Sabrina liked it. Living out in the middle of nowhere was dangerous and suspicious.

Cairo is an exploding modern metropolis which nevertheless preserves within its heart the finest medieval city in the world...