Quotes About City

I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.

Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

After all, when one goes out into the city with the sole goal of capturing the city, only to discover that the city is nothing but a restless shifting of scaffolding, then one must refrain from going out.

Everywhere in Edinburgh is uphill. This doesn't seem like it can possibly be true, but it is.

Up on the Rooftops

Her body is a city. Her heart is a large shady square, her fingers pedestrians, her hair the light of streetlamps, her knees two rows of buildings. She tries to give people footpaths. She tries to open up her cheeks and her towers. She didn't know streets hurt so much, not that there were so many streets in her to begin with. She wants to take her body on a stroll, out of her body, but she doesn't know where the key is.

What's this new shampoo you're wearing?" "I stole it from Margot. It's juicy pear. Nice, right?" "It's all right, I guess. But can you go back to the one you used to wear? The coconut one? I love the smell of that one." A dreamy look crosses his face, like evening fog settling over a city.

It's a city that has its own heartbeat. I just can't believe how many people there are, how crowded it is, how sophisticated everyone looks.

MANY DOGS RUN WILD IN THE CITY. SOME ARE ABANDONED BY THEIR OWNERS AND OTHERS ARE BORN TO LOST DOGS. STRAYS HAVE A LIMITED LIFE EXPECTANCY EVEN WHEN THEY BAND TOGETHER IN PACKS. THEY ARE PREY TO DISEASE, PARASITES, WEATHER AND AUTOMOBILES. THEY TEND TO BE FRIGHTENED AND VICIOUS. THEY ARE UNABLE TO PROTECT THEMSELVES OR ANYONE ELSE.

There is a man who travels around the world trying to find places where you can stand still and hear no human sound. It is impossible to feel calm in cities, he believes, because we so rarely hear birdsong there. Our ears evolved to be our warning systems. We are on high alert in places where no birds sing. To live in a city is to be forever flinching.

I learned you were fearless about the weather. You wanted to walk around the city, come rain come snow come sleet, recording things. I bought a warmer coat with many ingenious pockets. You put your hands in all of them.

In Paris, even the subways are required to be beautiful.

In those last weeks, we drove without talking, trying to outride the heat, each alone in the dream the city had become. I was afraid to speak, to touch his arm even.

Our ears evolved to be our warning systems. We are on high alert in places where no birds sing. To live in a city is to be forever flinching.

I made a promise to my parents that I would rid the city of the evil that took their lives.

I MADE A PROMISE TO MY PARENTS TO PROTECT THIS CITY FROM THE EVIL THAT TOOK THEIR LIVES. IF I AM TO SUCCEED, I MUST BE WILLING TO DEAL OUT — THE PUNISHMENT.

At this time of year many people decide that they should go on a Christmas-shopping trip to New York.

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

Were I a black man, it occurs to me, working or not, in this city, I would have a dry-cleaning bill.

Singapore is what your city could become if everyone obeyed the rules, did their jobs diligently, and just shut up. When your city gets to be this paragon of efficiency and discipline, would you still want to live there? Singapore is a model city, which is terrific if you happen to be a model human.

Was hatte er in dieser Stadt, in diesem verrückt gewordenen Steinbaukasten, zu suchen? Blumigen Unsinn schreiben, damit die Menschheit noch mehr Zigaretten rauchte als bisher? Den Untergang Europas konnte er auch dort abwarten, wo er geboren war. Das hatte er davon, dass er sich einbildete, der Globus drehe sich nur, solange er ihm zuschaue. Dieses lächerliche Bedürfnis, anwesend zu sein!