Quotes About Metropolis

Chicago rising out of the Midwest like huge metallic cornstalks...

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

we live in the age of the city. The city is everything to us it consumes us and for that reason we glorify it" -Onookome Okome

every year 65 million people are added to the world's urban population, equivalent to adding seven cities the size of Chicago or five the size of London annually.

They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug

A city is a concrete labyrinth in which our mind is lost.

except in one crucial particular. It wasn't London.

Urban man lives only in dreaming.

Los Angeles is a city that appears to have been built to satisfy somebody's desire for a cigarette.

City lights," she says. "Lights, progress, growth

New York was an inexhaustible space, a labyrinth of endless steps, and no matter how far he walked, no matter how well he came to know its neighbourhoods and streets, it always left him with the feeling of being lost. Lost,

The place is New York, the time is the present, and neither one will ever change.

If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.

Hell is a city much like London.