Quotes About City

This is what London's all about for me: good local restaurants. It's what makes a civilised city. For me, as a country boy, it's a real pleasure being able to walk to a restaurant. It seems very sophisticated, somehow.

I'd always thought pop stars had to be really sophisticated and grown-up. So I was enchanted by Bjork's childlikeness. I'd never heard a voice like hers, with all its character and glottal pronunciations, or music recorded with background noises, like the sound of the city or a bus pulling up.

A guy came up to me in the park and asked if I wanted to buy his CD. I said sure. He got panicked and told me he didn't actually have a CD, and he started crying and then told me he never made it and he's really sorry and called me 'Ralph.' New York's a really weird place.

There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.

The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

In my very early days as a journalist, as a cub reporter on a local newspaper, I used to cover the district courthouse in Limerick city - all human life passed through that establishment, and my time there remains a source of inspiration.

I love coming to Delhi. Driving around in south Delhi is fun. And the food here is fab.

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.

In the Concrete Jungle, there's definitely no Southern hospitality.

The fastest way to get around the southern Chinese city of Foshan is on the back of a motorcycle-for-hire.

Yes, I do consider the city I will be in when I decide which dress to wear. I get a little edgier in more metropolitan cities and a little fluffier in Southern cities. Having said that, I chose a lavender cupcake of a dress for the start of the book parties in New York City by Rafael Cennamo.

Southern Florida ain't even Florida for real. It's like New York, Chicago, the beaches.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.

A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.

If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.

I live in Boston so I'm used to small spaces.

My favorite thing about Milan is that you see these guys, and it's as if a spaceship came out of the most attractive planet invented and just dropped them off all across the city.

I love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!

I have said in the past that I dream of playing in Spain, but Dortmund has become my second home. I love this club, its fans, and this city.

Anabelle knew she was feeling too much, too fast. That was dangerous. Especially with a guy like Giorgio.

You can't love a city if you have no memories burried there.

They stamped their own pattern of lovers onto the fabric of Paris.