Quotes About City

I love New York, and I would love to try to live here for a while if I ever got the chance, but it's also extremely hectic. I don't think I would cope with that.

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.

I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.

After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

I love Chicago. I know Chicago. And Chicago is a great city. It can be a great city. It can't be a great city if people are shot walking down the street for a loaf of bread.

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

In Chicago, we love our crooks!

Hij had geprofiteerd van het gemak waarmee je in de grote stad van je 'persoonlijkheid' een goed verhaal kan maken, met kop en staart en een plot die wat te raden overlaat. Identiteit was iets om af te huren, een soort mentale smoking.

Consider the role that creative people play in cities. They are typically starving a bit, because it is virtually impossible to be commercially successful as an artist, and that hunger is partly what motivates them (do not underestimate the utility of necessity).

In their poverty, they explore the city, and they discover some ratty, quasi-criminal area that has seen better days. They visit, look, and poke about, and they think, "You know, with a little work, this area could be cool." Then they move in, piece together some galleries, and put up some art.

Have some humility. If you cannot bring peace to your household, how dare you try to rule a city?

Queipo de Llano había dicho: «De Madrid haremos una ciudad, de Bilbao una fábrica, de Barcelona un solar». Arrasarlo todo. Como en 1714.

A veces creía que cada calle de Barcelona iba asociada a un recuerdo.

I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.

A cidade da Bahia, negra e religiosa, é quase tão misteriosa como o verde mar

Por entre cabeças se descobrindo ou se inclinando, a recolher gestos e palavras de conforto e simpatia, em meio ao bulício da cidade, gente a passar, a conversar, a rir, dona Flor caminhou com seu buquê de flores destinadas à campa de Vadinho. Ia em direção ao cemitério mas era na vida que de novo penetrava; ei-la de retorno, convalescente ainda.

huge breath-held, candle-lit, whistling, planet-wide, still blood-flowing, howling-silent, sentence-driven, last-bridge-pulled-up-behind city of the human...

The hustle and bustle everywhere, so many carriages and cabs at a dash, Europeans, Chinese, and natives, each dressed after their own fashion, fruit pedlars, messengers, porters stripped to the waist, foodshops, inns, restaurants, shops, carts pulled by philosophical carabaos, the noise, the incessant movement, the sun itself, a certain smell, the riot of colours—he had almost forgotten what Manila was like.

One of the most powerful elements of living in - or even visiting - a city is the ability not only to disappear but also to disappear, as Salinger did, in plain sight. Surrounded by literally millions, the individual walks down the street invisible and unconnected. The ability to be alone among millions is one of the great paradoxes of the city.

It's better than the Green Line," Galvin said with a

Even for a well-to-do city family, making life comfortable is a problem. But arriving at a point where comfort becomes a problem for a fair number of people is a sign of advancing civilization.

Rome, yes, I say, thinking in quick succession of the Pantheon, the Colosseum and the cardinals screwing around while wondering whether women have souls or not, and of Nero, of course, who killed his closest family and let the city burn. I don't reckon he liked people, either.