Quotes About City

I love the cultural and intellectual stimulation of living in a city, but I also want the beauty and tranquility of the country where I can imagine my love stories and bring them to life on paper.

Helena, hermosa flor púrpura, el tormento de toda una ciudad sacrificada a su belleza...

When Vendacious chased Johanna into the Choir, when the killing swarm knocked her down, the image and the strangeness of her must have spread at near-soundspeed across the city. Here and there, the sight had reached some few who remembered, and mercy percolated back. Just in time.

What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?" says Christina. Yes," says Will, looking puzzled. Didn't you?

The siren that is this city speaks to us insistently even after we've moved away. She belongs to us, truly, and to each in a different way. Paris nous appartient.

Living in Paris is "priceless," but it will cost you. It ain't cheap, yet it is one of the greatest bargains on earth. In our day and age, there are only two ways to get free of money worries: either accumulate wealth, lots of it, or move to Paris.

Military parades roll down the Champs-Elysees, but pedestrians stroll up ["East Meets West on the Champs-Elysees," Metropolis , March 2006, p73]

In the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

People created chaos, not places, and they were damned good at it no matter where they lived. And when this glittering gem of a city teamed up with the world's oldest profession, fantasy piled atop fantasy; it could convince anyone that impulse was a virtue, not a vice.

Unten wimmelten schwarze Regenschirme und helle Frauenbeine, gelbe Autobusse, Bogenlampen. Sogar ein Baum war da, er streckte Zweige, nicht allzuweit vom Hotel, andere Zweige wie die Bäume in Fredersdorf. Er hatte ein Inselchen von Erde mitten im Asphalt, dieser Berliner Baum, und rund um die Erde einen Zaun, ein Gitter, als müsse er gegen die Stadt geschützt werden. Kringelein, von soviel Fremden und Überwältigendem umgeben, freundete sich ein wenig mit diesem Baum an.

You ever see a planned community?' "All the streets are laid out evenly," Charlie said. "A perfect grid. Planned and predictable. Then look at some old European city. The streets and alleys were made up as they went along. The place evolved over centuries. It's messy, but it's real.

A descendent of Basque ranchers, the mayor came from the small circle of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century European immigrants who had been his father's oldest customers and friends. Perhaps Malburg told Jim the story of how Vernon got its start in 1905, when John Baptiste Leonis, a French Basque hog rancher, persuaded the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads to extend tracks to his city to attract new factories, their preferred freight-hauling customers.

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.

The Heavenly City will vie with the moon and even the sun for beauty and splendour!

New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.

New York is eating young geniuses [businessmen] up alive. It's eating them up alive, Stone. And it's showing the beauty of the city, but it's showing the toughness and the viciousness of the city.

New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.

The best way to get around in New York is to be both rich and patient.

The only dream I ever had was the dream of New York itself, and for me, from the minute I touched down in this city, that was enough. It became the best teacher I ever had.

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.

There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter

In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.