Quotes About City

London's night economy is huge and it couldn't function without London's night buses.

Working on 'Candyman' in Chicago was probably the - I absolutely love this city, this city is so funky.

People who are from Chicago are just funnier than people who aren't from Chicago.

Five A.M., that's the best time, when the clicking of your heels on the sidewalk sounds illicit.

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.

She went out in the city with its lights like a radioactive phosphorescence, wandered through galleries where the high-priced art on the walls was the same as the graffiti scrawled outside by taggers who were arrested or killed for it, went to parties in hotel rooms where white-skinned, lingerie-clad rock stars had been staying the night their husbands shot themselves in the head, listened to music in nightclubs where stunning boyish actors had OD'd on the pavement.

If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model and the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister, then New York is their cousin. Her hair is dyed autumn or aubergine or Egyptian henna, depending on her mood. Her skin is pale as frost and she wears beautiful Jil Sander suits and Prada pumps on which she walks faster than a speeding taxi (when it is caught in rush hour, that is). Her lips are some unlikely shade of copper or violet, courtesy of her local MAC drag queen makeup consultant.

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.

There was the feeling in him then that his body had become the manifestation of some power he could no longer control. He had become a non-being, a stillness which moved itself. At the core of the non-being, there he existed, allowing himself to be led through the stress of his city, following a track so familiar in his visions that it froze his heart with grief.

the afternoon shadows gloomed the depths of the city

polish comes from the cities, wisdom from the desert.

The Emerald City has been ruled by men long enough

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

I'm becoming the street. Who are you in love with? me? Straight against the light I cross.

I was heading for the city in the south, of which they used to say in our village: 'There are people for you! Just think—they never go to sleep!' 'And why don't they?' 'Because they're fools.' 'Don't fools get tired, then?' 'How could fools get tired?

I was making for that city in the south of which it was said in our village: There you'll find queer folk! Just think, they never sleep! And why not? Because they never get tired. And why not? Because they're fools. Don't fools get tired? How could fools get tired!---Children on a Country Road, Contemplation.

Weightlessly, bonelessly, bodilessly walked for two hours through the streets

Mir war auf dem Friedhof besser als in der Stadt, es hielt auch an. ich gieng lange durch die Stadt wie durch einen Friedhof.

I am very much a city boy, and I really don't get out into the countryside or the wilderness that much at all.

'Hanna' has grown up in mother nature's beautiful wilderness and that's what she knows. So for someone like me who has always had a life in the city, it was a chance to look beyond social conventions.

I didn't know exactly what to expect when I first came to Seattle but I have to say that how the city and the fans have embraced me has gone beyond my wildest dreams and for that I am forever grateful.

At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when one will want to get evidence from the Normans.

Everyone who moves to New York City has a book or movie or song that epitomizes the place for them. For me, it's 'The Cricket in Times Square', written by George Selden and illustrated by Garth Williams.

Melbourne is where the Crown story started. It's a testament to the vision and work of Lloyd Williams and Jeff Kennett - our resort helped transform Melbourne and put the city on the map for international tourists.