Quotes About City

the city's metro—the Metrorrey—twenty miles long, thirty-one stations, and more lines under construction. Who knew Monterrey had a rapid transit system?

San Luis Potosí is a victim of the usual Mexican pattern of the old harmonious colonial city brutally martyred in the cause of modernization—officialdom destroying it in order to make it live.

its workforce composed of assembly-line workers as well as highly educated graduates of the city's sixteen universities and institutes of technology.

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.

Day by day beneath the opulence of this city Wang Lung lived in the foundations of poverty upon which it was laid.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.

A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.

I don't even believe in magic, or ghosts or anything like that, and yet in a city like New York, on the subway, I definitely see ghosts and art seems to have some magical properties.

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

I like the sense of the road passing my eyes. It's always a fascinating experience to come into a new city...the sense of the people changing, the food changing, everything changing, the art.

I consider myself a Chicagoan. I came here to study at the Art Institute in 1951 when I was 18 years old, and I've been here ever since. I still think Chicago is the best city in the country.

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally.

There's a certain attitude to Los Angeles.

I know that I too could try a story out, rebuild mine, make it live again several minutes before the full of the day, the sun, the city. But I haven't the strength, stupidly. I rise and carry on. One more time.

And there are programs in every city designed to assist them to get off the streets, or so they say. But in truth only the most functional among the homeless are able to access these programs. Lines are endless, forms are impossible to decipher, qualifications can't be met, standards don't apply.

means. And her small, chic penthouse apartment

Have you ever been to Chicago?" he asked