Quotes About City

We see Lyft as not just an app, but a movement of people coming together in cities and having conversations about things that matter. You're around some of the most interesting people in the world, and you don't talk to them. More and more people are craving in-person interactions.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.

On 'Sex and The City', when Carrie talked about money problems, I would always think, 'Sell your shoes!'

I don't know who made the first Aquaman joke. I'm sure it was comics readers; maybe we all did. But it's the idea that the perpetuated story of Aquaman is that he only has powers in water, and he talks to fish. I think it's the idea of him in the middle of a city just doesn't make a lot of sense to people. It's just the character itself.

Among the things I love about London is that there is a lot of green space and that the buildings are not very tall.

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

Time is water, and the Venetians conquered both by building a city on water, and framed time with their canals. Or tamed time. Or fenced it in. Or caged it.

Tampa's crazy... The ladies in Tampa come in all flavors. I felt like I was at Dairy Queen.

I first discovered Tampa in my 20s when I met my wife, who was living there, and I instantly fell in love with the city. It's somewhere between a big city and small town, so you get the feeling of both.

Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him one doubted Him one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?

the land of fadeless day lies the city foursquare; it shall never pass away and there is no night there.

It's part of why I came to Los Angeles. My real work. I kill the dead.

L.A. is a lot to take in when it's not on fire.

In New York, it's already clear that just a few months of neglect by city maintenance teams would lead to the streets becoming a burgeoning forest of Chinese tree-of-heaven seedlings.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

morning light through his windshield was pale and tired; the city had the desultory, cluttered look of a living room after a drunken party; Martin

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

downtown L.A., I drove along Broadway past Third Street, parked in a lot between Third and Fourth, and walked back to the Hamilton Building

Oklahoma is the Bad Food Capital of the World, and Oklahoma City is as cheery as an opened casket. No one reads in that city, and bookstores are even rarer there than atheists.

We anguish over more school facilities and ignore the unlimited classroom that is our city.

He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There's a niche in his chest where a heart would fit perfectly and he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place – well then, game over.

The place had filled him with a sense of wisdom hovering just out of reach, of unspeakable grace prepared and waiting just around the corner, but he'd walked himself weak down its endless blue streets and all the people who knew how to live had kept their tantalizing secret to themselves.

The building was one of seventeen on various lists for demolition, some of which had been offered to the city—in lieu of tax breaks—for fire training.

Polluted, packed, putrid, it's the only place where I have any room, any hope. I got to go back and stick it out. At least in New York City I can be more than a breeder of the next generation.