Quotes About City life

The new American finds his challenge and his love in traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.

I was born in the West Village in New York, and then when I was about four my family moved to what they joke is the suburbs, the Upper West Side. I lived there for most of my childhood.

Life's such a movie, filmed independent, us against the city.

The sidewalks swarmed with people, the night was full of the noises of the living. They struck Miss Clarvoe's ears strangely, like sounds from another planet.

As he came up Second Avenue, Henry saw that Jerry Lauterbach was again having trouble with the neighborhood psycho. It was natural, Henry reflected, that New York, being so well supplied with all the necessities of life, should not be lacking in persons whose mental furniture was sliding on the polished floors of their intelligence.

Hong Kong and Macau are both very dynamic cities. I am always inspired about the culture, people and food in these two cities. There is always so much to do and so much to explore!

To me, Toronto is a good party city, I think Vancouver has the best smoke, you know. And then, Montreal has the best..uh..Chinese food?

Não há futuro sem memória. Por isso os antigos chamaram à Memória a mãe de todas as musas. O espaço cercado das cidades actuais, na sua azáfama diária, no seu trânsito caótico, nos seus eixos projectados para a periferia, parece ter consumido, portas dentro, os próprios ecos do passado recente.

We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it.

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

I'm definitely bicoastal, but I have to say, it's easier to live in New York than in L.A. I feel like people respect other people's space a bit more here.

When I'm at school in the city, I don't feel particularly worldly or wise. It's only when I come back home that I remember exactly why I left.

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

a cidade não é um lugar. É a moldura de uma vida, um chão para a memória. Enrolei a linha, e regressei a casa, o poente avermelhando a paisagem e os flamingos trazendo o céu para junto da terra. Então, ganhei certeza: a cidade em que nasci estava destinada a nascer de mim.

The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can't just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.

The best thing to be in a city was anonymous. Failing that, however, notoriety would do.

Se gândi la toÈ›i oamenii care coexist? f?r? vreun motiv aparent, în inima aceluiaÈ™i oraÈ™, f?r? vreun interes sau vreo preocupare comune, urmând traiectorii neb?nuite È™i divergente, dar aduÈ™i împreun? de sex sau de crim?.

You know you're in L.A. when you put air in your tires and they cough.

So things were coming together nicely for me to embark on a full-fledged depression. One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression.

It sounds odd, but cheerful is very hard to find in Los Angeles. I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug

there was something about a Friday night in the city with no plans that made you feel like … well, like a bit of a loser.

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.