Quotes About Cosmopolitan

Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that's been to Kelso three times, and they've never been farther than Ford in their lives." Kate peered absently into the farm pond, and clucked again. "Thoughtless creatures. They've forgotten the fish.

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.

I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated — God, I'm sophisticated! (Daisy)

Walking around town and driving around London - it's like a fashion show on every corner.

London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.

From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That's why I'm such a city cat.

Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history - as befits a former law professor - and he has shown time and again a surprising interest in contemporary fiction.

My parents knew a wider range of people than most, and so we had actors, journalists, politicians, planters, sportsmen and women and business folk all coming in and out of the places we lived in. Although my parents were not wealthy, they lived a legendary and amazingly cosmopolitan life.

I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.

In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French, and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we tackle the subject of immigration and racial tension, it's an issue that concerns Montreal.

As a small nation buffeted by great powers, Israel often had to choose between war against potent enemies and a peace that many Israelites found humiliating. And the resultant hostility toward foreign powers was only intensified among commoners who resented the way cosmopolitan elites profited by befriending Israel's oppressors

Je suis un de ces êtres exceptionnels, oui, monsieur, et je crois que, jusqu'à ce jour, aucun homme ne s'est trouvé dans une position semblable à la mienne. Les royaumes des rois sont limités, soit par des montagnes, soit par des rivières, soit par un changement de mÅ"urs, soit par une mutation de langage. Mon royaume, à moi, est grand comme le monde, car je ne suis ni Italien, ni Français, ni Indou, ni Américain, ni Espagnol: je suis cosmopolite.

New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

The founder of the Persian Empire, Cyrus the Great, possessed a remarkably cosmopolitan vision. Rather than annihilate or enslave his opponents, Cyrus envisioned a multinational empire where foreign cultures were to be respected and preserved, albeit under Persian supervision. This

Mumbai is like Manhattan. Theres a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.

A city man is at home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike.

I guess you could say I'm that Cosmopolitan girl!

Despite its cosmopolitan airs, New York manufactures its own distinctive brand of high-IQ hicks: people [...] whose comprehension of the world beyond the Hudson River is willfully nonexistent.

Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.

New York is just as provincial as anyone else.

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.

San Francisco, coolest place ever.

If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model and the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister, then New York is their cousin. Her hair is dyed autumn or aubergine or Egyptian henna, depending on her mood. Her skin is pale as frost and she wears beautiful Jil Sander suits and Prada pumps on which she walks faster than a speeding taxi (when it is caught in rush hour, that is). Her lips are some unlikely shade of copper or violet, courtesy of her local MAC drag queen makeup consultant.