Quotes About Metropolis

the minarets now seemed to me as profuse in Istanbul as smokestacks in Pittsburgh.

Bailey always lived in cities, where everything was a crush and you were never really alone. He craved the buzz of people and culture, food and energy, architecture.

To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.

A parte habitada da cidade estendia-se da Battery até o Common.

Manhattan is a narrow island surrounded by various miscellaneous items.

They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.

To live in Metropolis was to know that the exceptional was as commonplace as diet soda, that abnormality was the popcorn norm.

En aquella metrópoli de lenguas y cuchicheos, ni los oídos más finos oían algo fidedigno

New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

The only thing worse than a city full of people is a city with no people at all.

I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.

A city man is at home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike.

New York, New York,A helluva town.The Bronx is up and the Battery's down,And people ride in a hole in the ground.New York, New York,It's a helluva town!

Singapura means lion-city; prehistoric, myopic, Sanskrit-speaking visitors having spotted a mangy tiger or two in the mangroves. Sly Malays sometimes call it Singa pura-pura, which means pretending to be a lion.It is a profoundly provincial town pretending to be a metropolis.

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.

If you made up a city like this, no one would have believed you. It seemed more like myth than reality- a whole metropolis built up around an industry that recorded dreams on giant screens, a city bordered by an ocean and a desert and snowcapped mountains. And right through the urban sprawl were canyons full of flowers, wild animals and secrets.

New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.

The southern end of Manhattan was hardly empty. There were hundreds of buildings massed together, short, tall, taller. It reminded Dan of a crowd jammed into one of Jonah's concerts: The tallest buildings were like the people who sit on their friends' shoulders so they can see better.

West Street, but the sidewalks were