“The most important thing is to find the balance between city and nature. I have that 'hippie quality' - my husband is a super-hippie Los Angeles boy - so we'll have to make time to go to Puerto Rico, and upstate New York, and be sure we get to do outdoorsy stuff like that.” ImportantStuffCitiesQualityBoysNew YorkBalanceHusbandImportant ThingsLos AngelesMy HusbandHippieMaking TimePuerto RicoRicoUpstate New York Author:Ana Ortiz
“Well, on tour I eat terribly, so I balance that by running a lot. And then I started to run with my fans in certain cities. It sounds very nerdy and un-rock n' roll, but I like it. It's fun, and it's better than meeting fans in weird, awkward circumstances. So I take them running with me.” WellsRunningRomanceCertainFunSoundCitiesFansRocksBalanceCircumstancesMeetingsRock N RollAwkwardNerdy Author:Ellie Goulding
“That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have to do with sustainability of cities. The ability of cities to, over time, remain in balance with the resource streams that are available to them, and they have to do with social justice and equity of the fundamental conditions of satisfactory citizenship.” ThinkingImportantIdeasSocialJusticeAbilityCitiesVisionConditionsBalanceResourcesSocial JusticeFundamentalsAvailableStreamsSustainabilityCitizenshipEquityUtopian Author:William J. Mitchell
“The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.” TwoValuesThreeForceCitiesBalanceDisciplineLessonsStrategyChaosArchitectureBlockDistinctionAnarchyFormalIrrelevantFluidManhattanBuilderGridsMetropolis Author:Rem Koolhaas
“You have to almost apologize for saying, please enforce the laws. The laws, that they're [government] receiving good federal dollars to be able to ensure for public safety, which is incumbent upon them to secure on the streets in every city and state across this country. And instead government allows individuals who are a risk, who are a threat, to come back in the country, routinely, regularly without any kind of checks and balances.” KindCountryStatesGovernmentAbleLawIndividualCitiesRiskStreetsBalancePleaseSafetyDollarsThreatChecksSecureReceivingApologizingIncumbentsPublic SafetySaying Please Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle
“No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.” PeopleMayDoePainHurtPleasureCitiesReadyBalanceRoseParisJustificationCrownsMartyrThornsImmoralityFrivolityFiercenessCrown Of ThornsIrreligion Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I absolutely love the balance between New York and Miami because I go to New York and I get so inspired and it's really busy and it's like the real city and then I come to Miami and I'm just in a happy place.” RealCitiesNew YorkBalanceInspiredBusyMiamiHappy Place Author:Nina Agdal
“I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.” DifficultCitiesBalanceSeekingWildlifeUnbalanced Book:The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century Source: The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century
“I try to balance work and play. I'm really grateful that I can kind of have that philosophy, so I can try to get out of the city as much as possible, even though I love the city and I'm not ready to leave it.” TryingKindI CanPhilosophyPlayCitiesReadyBalanceGratefulNot ReadyWork And PlayReady To Leave Author:Jorja Fox
“Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.” IfsCitiesGoneFiguresBalanceExcitedSuspectsBoresSheetsBalance Sheets Author:Anne Robinson
“There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins.” WorldStoriesLostCitiesDyingMonthsBalanceCrucialCompositionDetroitPrecariousGreat CitiesDecomposition Book:Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story Source: Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story
“You cannot suddenly make Lower Manhattan into a sad place because we saw such a dramatic loss of life. You have to balance the memory, which is so important, and use it as a kind of Archimedean Point to create a lively, incredibly interesting, and culturally significant piece of a city and neighborhood.” KindImportantUseMemoriesLossInterestingCitiesSawsPiecesBalanceSignificantDramaticNeighborhoodManhattanLively Author:Daniel Libeskind
“My first album was called Seven Waves, and was directly inspired by the ocean, and the ocean has been a leitmotif in my music. Nature was my inspiration even in NYC, because I needed that balance - I would travel out to nature. I loved the big city, I loved the energy, but I needed the balance.” FirstsHas BeensBigsInspirationEnergyCitiesNeededBalanceOceanSevenInspiredWaveAlbumsBig CitiesNyc Author:Suzanne Ciani
“We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs, who understand the need of working families.” KnowsNeedsCitiesKnow HowBalanceBudgetsUrgencyMayorsDeliveringGreat Cities Author:Carolyn Maloney
“Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- dark dreams and slow death, the death of children, suffering without grace or redemption, ultimate and eternal loss. The memory of the child stayed with him. But that was not to be the end of it, for reality went around in a twisting ring. Even the irredeemable would be redeemed, and there was a balance for everything. There had to be.” ChildrenEndsDreamRealityWould BeSufferingDiesFallLeftMemoriesDarkLossCitiesGraceBalanceEternalUltimateRingsRedemptionDawnMortalityLeft AloneRedeemedHallwaysMarshesDark Dreams Author:Mark Helprin