Quotes About Metropolis

It made her smile a little at how fitting it was to think that an entrance to Hades could be somewhere in the financial district of Manhattan.

A city is simply a passel of people packed in a pot like pickles.

New York is the great stone desert.

A great city is a great solitude.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me.

The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

One thing about Los Angeles is it feels like it's not new. It feels like it's already been built, and it's deteriorating, except for the places they're trying to make nicer. But in general, you drive all through the city, and the city feels like it was new a long time ago.

Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.

For me, I coin Austin as being kind of a baby brother to L.A. Because it's pretty much the same thing; L.A. is just amplified to the nth degree.

New York has the biggest, most eclectic collection of people in the world.

Liverpool is off the side of the known universe, and it always was. New York is the only other place comparable.

I don't like concrete jungles.

I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.

Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.

It was extraordinary how far you could go in London and barely touch a pavement or cross a road.

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.