Quotes of: Big-city Keyword

A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.

Bill Dedman

I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.

Bennie Thompson

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.

Mike Birbiglia

St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.

Valentina Matviyenko

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

Zaha Hadid

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work.

Hope Davis

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

Marilyn Hacker

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

George Orwell

I'm not a big sing-and-dance man.

Satya Bhabha

I'm a big Disneyland nut.

John Lasseter

We have time, there's no big rush.

Jimi Hendrix

I'm a big old romantic.

Colin Farrell

I hate when people don't keep their word or they are late. Tardiness is a big pet peeve of mine.

Tim Hudson

Communities are not built of friends, or of groups of people with similar styles and tastes, or even of people who like and understand each other. They are built of people who feel they are part of something that is bigger than themselves: a shared g...

A City Year: On the Streets and in the Neighborhoods with Twelve Young Community Service Volunteers

Wives of criminals, Massau later reflected, were indeed an interesting lot. There are those who, real panthers in madness, defend their men with claws out; there are the cold and insensitive ones, who wrestling step by step, discuss each argument and...

Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris

From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In...

Everything Is Illuminated

Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else in the world, a majority-African American city where resistance to white supremacy has cultivated and supported a gen...

Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six

The strange thing about adulthood, when you're single, is that it's possible to go for fairly extended periods without facing blatant sin against. Sure there was plenty of sin against God but with such infrequent consequence - it was easy to self-con...

Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity

The Brinktown jail is one of the most ingenious ever propounded by civic authorities. It must be remembered that Brinktown occupies the surface of a volcanic butte, overlooking a trackless jungle of quagmire, thorn, eel-vine skiver tussock. A single ...

The Star King

In the cities of the European Franks, women roam about exposing not only their faces, but also their brightly shining hair (after their necks, their most attractive feature), their arms, their beautiful throats, and even, if what Ive heard is true, a...

My Name is Red

And suddenly it came to him. That Strawberry Fields garden he'd come from, and the Freedom Tower he'd been thinking of: taken together, didn't they contain the two words that said it all about this city, the two words that really mattered? It seemed ...

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