Quotes About City

Me and my family all like Shanghai, and I'm slowly getting used to the city and the atmosphere.

I've driven in L.A. probably three times. I'm a slug in L.A.

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

Bombay is the ideal microcosm of India, of that whole sense of inequality where you could have the biggest skyscrapers next to the poorest slums.

When I fifteen or sixteen and was in London, moving from a small town and now going to a big city, I discovered so much new music. Finding all of that music and being inspired that much all at once, that was the benefit of being from a small place.

I love Boston, but it's a smaller city for the personalities and video and the other stuff we want to incorporate.

I like living in a smaller place, but I like being in big cities, too, like Athens.

We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first time ever we can describe a city in real time.

People often say that they want to move away to smaller cities for a better lifestyle and peace, but as a single girl, you need your society, your neighbour, and even passersby to give you some respect.

I grew up in Matsue, in Shimane prefecture, which is one of the smallest cities in Japan.

There are some smart people here in Boston. We're a sports city here and everybody loves competition. Esports is another outlet for that.

Wilshire Boulevard... It has no smell to it.

I love L.A. - don't get me wrong. But I miss everything about New York. I don't eat cheese, but I miss the smell of pizza in the city. I'm a really big fan of Latino food. I want to go back home and have some good arroz con pollo.

I loved the taste and smell of Chicago hot dogs.

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.

I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast corner. It is to never ever make a smooth entrance, always to get caught looking lost on the street.

I want to make a city that can run smoothly with anyone in charge, even without a mayor in place.

In New York, I can be a little edgier - I'll wear sneakers, combat boots, jeans. In L.A., I don't go as far. I find myself taking more of a risk when it comes to style in New York.

I really miss Melbourne food; Melbourne is very snobbish about their caffe culture, and I feel like I've become a snob, too.

We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

It doesn't get more romantic than snow in Paris.

New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.

One good and bad thing about New York is there's so much exciting stuff and so many people doing something interesting. I actually find in New York that you become more careerist and more focused on what's the newest, hippest thing.