Quotes About City

I come from New York. It's busy. It's populated. It's noisy. It's loud.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normally living.

We're not a city that has normally relied on major corporations. It doesn't mean that we don't want to have major anchor tenant corporations in our city. We love to have them, but for whatever reason we've been a city that's been very entrepreneurial.

I'm normally based in L.A.

Normally, people would spend thousands to watch a trashy film in a multiplex, but not shell out a few bucks to watch a play. But in bigger cities, we are more likely to find a bigger section of people who would want to watch a play.

The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city in Europe and Asia and North America has fallen over themselves to have their own contemporary art museum.

Greensboro's mad at me because I said I'd rather go to New York City for a week. Why would they be mad at me? Are they that parocial. I didn't say Greensboro wasn't a nice place. It's a very nice place. But if I had a choice for a week where I would go and ask somebody in North Carolina where they rather go for a week - Greensboro or New York City?

I'm not talking about any one team but everyone knows how I feel about New York. I really enjoyed my time there.

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city.

Winning a championship in Milwaukee, it's not about my other business. It's about bringing the notoriety to a great city.

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.

I find N.Y. very inspiring; there is an amazing energy and flow of creativity in N.Y. like nowhere else.

I love New York, where I live - it's the best city in the world. Nowhere in the world do you have so many nationalities that are actually mixed together - it's so multicultural.

There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

For years I wrote newspaper columns mostly about the teams in my city. There was no cheering in the press box, and I fought to remain objective.

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

A city's soul is best observed during the morning, what is the culture of the city, how are the people, you also get to know whether the city is cosmopolitan or religious.