Quotes of: Greatest-city Keyword

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

Joseph J. Lhota

Miette: When you're born in the gutter you end up in the port.

The City of Lost Children

Eva: My PO doesn't understand that schools are like the city and the city is jut like a prison.

Freedom Writers

In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.

Tift Merritt

Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American.

Shawn Amos

Michel Poiccard: If you don't like the sea... or the mountains... or the big city... then get stuffed!

Breathless

As a city, it is always compelling. But every day in Mexico City, I give thanks that I am alive.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I want to be the most eligible bachelor in New York City.

Andrej Pejic

Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.

Bill Bryson

I primarily live in New York City, a place that is about constants, not letting up and not stopping.

Waris Ahluwalia

We would never call inexplicable little insights 'hunches,' for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that had come through if you saw a detective kiss his or her fingers and to...

The City & the City

Some parents live more like reclusive monks than like first-century Christians who were famous for their love for and service within their cities, cities that in many cases were more overtly wicked than cities found in modern-day America.

Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus

I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something weirdly calming about being alone in a big city. It made me feel like the universe was hugely generous, and that my species was so damn...

In the Bag

Children are like geniuses, only smarter. Ocala has more creative kids than any other city named Ocala. That’s scientific, because there is only one city named Ocala, and it was named after a city not named Ocala. It’s true! It was named after ...

Sleepwalking is restercise

Couples will no longer spend their nights in their houses dedicated to habitation and reception, the customary social reason for banalization. The chamber of love will be more remote from the center of the city: it will completely naturally re-create...

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

Nobody: I was then taken east, in a cage. I was taken to Toronto. Then Philadelphia. And then to New York. And each time I arrived at another city, somehow the white men had moved all their people there ahead of me. Each new city contained the same w...

Dead Man

God knows nothing gets accomplished in the world these days without terrorism.

The City of Devi

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

In the City of Shy Hunters

The fates lead her who will; who won't they drag.

In the City of Shy Hunters

We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

In the Cities of Coin and Spice

Lesen ist eine Erinnerungsarbeit, bei der wir durch Geschichten in den Genuss der vergangenen Erfahrungen anderer kommen, als wären es unsere eigenen.

The City of Words