Cities Quotes

Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods.

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

It's a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.

People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts. I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.

If youre a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When youre on television, youre removed from that.

A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley.

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

I feel like myself and the city of Cleveland are in the same boat. We're made for each other. A few years ago, everybody had bad thoughts on Albert Belle. I feel that has changed.

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.

Fighting men are the city's fortress.

Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart.

I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation.

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.

Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see.

You were out on tour, 75 cities in 80 days, and then making records on top of it. And they started calling us the Hollywood Vampires 'cause anybody only saw us at night.

I'm having an unbelievable time on the road. I am taking the time to explore each new city in a way I never have before.

I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again.

And I loved seeing that because they're great interesting cities in of themselves so I'm looking forward to actually being able to use it as itself instead of being a bad New York.

You can stand on a stage in New York City and make very strong statements, but now everyone has to be held accountable equally.

Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.

My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the city where believers have killed unbelievers to give life to faith.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said that New Orleans, when rebuilt, will be a chocolate city. And he will be the delicious nut in the center.

I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.

I've always lived in a city.

Being in New York City is the best because I'm always walking, taking the subway and walking up and down the stairs - whether you like it or not, you're going to get exercise.

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped.

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

We need to consider that only a small amount of the public vote for the mayor of a city. It's because they are disgusted and don't trust the government.

New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity.

I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.

To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things.

E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.