Quotes About Metropolitan

The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.

It's Kansas City now

And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.

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Authors like Martin Amis, Peter Ackroyd or Julian Barnes engage with metropolitan subject-matter, but the books that sell by the container-load are historical romances. The upper classes may have lost their political power, but they still manage to set the social tone and determine the aspirations of the ambitious.

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

At our house, my father loved the arts. Among his favorite things was 'The Metropolitan Museum of Art Album of Miniatures' - a box set of small books on different art periods. I'd go into the living room at night and sit on the arm of his chair as he studied the images.

I think New York is more stylish than London.

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

I grew up in New York City. We used to diss Long Island and Jersey. Every big city has its own suburb like that.

In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

I love Atlanta, even the city.

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

London life made one lazy, he considered. Unfit for real existence.

I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.

I love just being at Lincoln Center - it's so New York! Those fountains!

Chambers (1986) argues that contemporary metropolitan society produces a culture of the spectacle in which the realization of the self is not achieved in the depth of one's inner being, but on the surface, through style, through image, through a series of theatrical gestures (p.11).

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship.

Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.

She said she felt like Claudia Kincaid in From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

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