Quotes of: Beautiful-city Keyword

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

Rooftop Soliloquy

That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead.

Revival

Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

Sorcerer's Apprentice

You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die... I just don't want to exist.

Smog City

Words are precious things meant to create, to imagine, to dream with.

Summer in the City

Dear V., I'm a terrible actor and this city is fucking freezing and I miss you. - A.

Station Eleven

There are some beliefs and places in this city that are incomprehensible to some-hell-to most, and it's best to leave them alone.

Manhattan Grimoire

I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.

My Name Is Asher Lev

That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn.

Minor Snobs

Anabelle knew she was feeling too much, too fast. That was dangerous. Especially with a guy like Giorgio.

Love in the City

To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.

The Lonesome Gods

If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?,’ she will answer, ‘He is my child.

Les Misérables

The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.

Soul Music

If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone’s wallets.

Snuff

Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.

Selected Poems and Four Plays

There is always a unique atmosphere in the car when you drive through the City with a dead body in the back.

In The Shadow of Sadd

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

The Shadow of the Wind

The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

The Shadow of the Wind

Narrow the focus, take the ascent one step at a time, and it's amazing what odds a man can beat.

The Tainted City

As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.

The Tenth City