Quotes of: Greatest-city Keyword

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

Lady Gaga

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Lewis Mumford

There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity of works of art for public view.

Simon Van Booy

The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about making the city more interesting and more visually significant.

Susan Davis

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of Love. Along that river is the tree of heaven.

The Address Of Happiness

I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..

Inferno

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

The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city…

The Last Enchantments

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