Cities Quotes - Page 181

What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know because we can't see inside it, it's something we cannot imagine, like the shape of angels' teeth. It's a black box.

The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.

There's no question about it. If you look at the map, there's hardly any [Democrats representing rural districts]. There's me, [Rick] Nolan, [Tim] Walz, [Dave] Loebsack and Cheri Bustos. So that's five. And all the rest of them are in urban cities. That's a problem.

I find that, rather than the cities, I'm very lucky because the audiences that come and see me are very, generally speaking, truly kind, so I have a great time playing everywhere.

I love Calgary. It's a great city. I enjoyed my time there, quite a bit. Shooting and filming in that cold could be very difficult, at times. When you're shooting nights, and it's 3 in the morning and minus 35 degrees, that's hard to work in.

I'd love to come to Middle Earth! Apparently Auckland is an amazing city, one of the best to live in too.

I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.

If you're in an urban city like New York, the corner markets are fantastic sources for tulips and roses.

The whole function of cities has been transformed.

What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world.

Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

Sometimes we're the big game in town. Other times, we're kind of a side show. (on Manchester City)

In New York City, everybody goes into therapy.

One more thing: Linda, can you get to Canterbury and take over my Chaucerian Society? They're at Dovecote Hostelry in the old city. We're visiting all the scenes of the great murders. Tomorrow they want to see where Becket was killed. They're a bloodthirsty lot, it seems.

Women are still chronically underrepresented in U.S. politics at both a local and national level... But there is one city where those three top jobs will be filled by women for the next year. And that city is Washington D.C.

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

The thing I've learned traveling through the United States is that the people in each city are usually awesome, it's generally the 'talking heads' that give us trouble.

Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.

I am sure everyone here has noticed a city where they felt at home, or a city that had “bad vibes.”

As a person i couldnt say, although i am well apuainted with tales of his atrocities. every time brom and i crossed paths with him, he was trying to kill us. or ratar, capture, torture, and then killus, none of which are productive to establishing a close relationship" _ Jeod

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views.