Quotes About City

London ... remains a man's city where New York is chiefly a woman's. London has whole streets that cater to men's wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.

London is like the grave in one respect -- any man can make himself at home there; and whenever a man finds himself homeless elsewhere, he had better either die or go to London.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Love is a heavenly quality that is given to prepare men to enjoy the heavenly city more.

New York is a different breed than any other city there is. Media can be very hard on you at times, but [Patrick Ewing] did handle it like a man. He was able to prosper in that whole atmosphere.

My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.

The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.

I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.

New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.

I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.

London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.

New York is the financial capital of the world. Everything moves so fast, and the music is fast, and some of it is for money.

I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.

I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.

It is not about the money. It's the public service aspect. Absolutely, I think it has qualities of redemption. The city gets a second chance. I get a second chance.

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.

The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.

When you walk up five flights of stairs at four in the morning, there's definitely a hooker involved.

In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.