Metropolis Quotes
Metropolis Quote of the day
When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.
'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.
Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?
The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.
The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.
The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis
I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.
The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.
In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature.
San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry.
