Quotes About City

I have always loved the history of Los Angeles and Twilight in the City of Angels nails it. --Danny Trejo, actor

The view from the window, particularly if you enjoy neon, is extraordinary.

London had always had this trick of living in two time signatures at once - the urgent and the always - each in earshot of the other.

to have faith—that a lover would be constant and life clement—this did require courage in a city more disposed to beginnings than safe continuations.

It was not the same as charging down a machine-gun nest armed only with a Bowie knife, or strapping in to the tail-gunner seat of a four-engined heavy bomber. And no one else would ever know, since one did not get a medal for letting go of a woman's hand on a gray Saturday morning in the middle of a European war. But to have faith—that a lover would be constant and life clement—this did require courage in a city more disposed to beginnings than safe continuations. As

London was perfectly prepared to give him a night out of anywhere on earth, and yet all he asked was to come home.

Christ is not the answer to your city, I am not the answer to your city. The answer to your city is Christ in you and Christ through you.

I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.

Because the world itself is now unfathomable, the only complexities that really count are small moments of domestic life that combine to trigger deep emotion. There is no longer any way of being poor in any interesting way in major cities like Manhattan

They'll never let a Labour government headed by Harry Perkins take power," he told her. "Who're 'they'?" she had asked innocently. "Your friends in the City, the newspaper owners, the civil servants, all them sort of people." Elizabeth had laughed at him. "You socialists are all the same – paranoid. Always thinking somebody's tapping your phone or blaming all your troubles on the capitalist press.

And those who were awake and walking the streets were a fascinating blend of the wild, the lost, and the forgotten. Very few of whom would be missed if they were to meet Allan in a dark alley.

So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place.

It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.

New York is gray and slushy and miserable for months. But

I look up into the starless sky. My heart pounds. This silent badlands scares me more than nighttime in the city, with its noise and light.

She was shocked by how dirty Florence was.

Tokyo was an origami city folded over and over until something was made of virtually nothing.

Hey Glasgow, it's Saturday night!' He did it with such rapture, such a sense of celebration that Jane realised she had long ago forgotten why. Saturday night was meaningless when every day was the same, when you were never going to do anything special with it anyway. But this was a stirring reminder of what it used to mean.

It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas.

Big fucking mistake man. You can't be near her. Don't you get it? [...] She's part of this city. Do you see? I mean, really part of it. You hurt her, you - hurt all of this.

A great city is not something that should be judged by our elders... We should learn from our mistakes, not look back on them, we should use the knowledge that we have to move forward....

Anderson portrayed the city in Dark Laughter.

Es gibt ein Mittel gegen die Einsamkeit, die einen plötzlich in einer fremden Stadt überfällt: etwas kaufen: eine Ansichtskarte, einen Kaugummi nur, einen Bleistift oder Zigaretten: etwas in die Hand bekommen, teilnehmen am Leben dieser Stadt, indem man etwas kauft [...]

They stand close for a while, not touching, but breathing each other's breath. The city is silent now, as if for peace.