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“One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's reception center in Chicago.”

Feels Waiting Cities Subtle Chicago Plastic Reception Hares Nausea

Author:Norman Mailer

“Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.”

Men Suffering Evil Literature Cities Evil Man

Author:Hesiod

“From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself that his own city is anything other than an unscrupulous real-estate speculation”

Real Moments Cities Impossible Europe Estates Speculation Impossibility New Yorkers Large Cities

Book:Europe without Baedeker: sketches among the ruins of Italy, Greece and England, together with, Notes from a European diary, 1963-1964

Source: Europe without Baedeker: sketches among the ruins of Italy, Greece and England, together with, Notes from a European diary, 1963-1964

“During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland”

War States Cities Clubs Rebellion Influential Baltimore Maryland

Book:From The Earth To The Moon / De la terre à la lune (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

Source: From The Earth To The Moon / De la terre à la lune (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

“A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.”

Law Cities Streets Fields Fine Internet Promise Clean Architecture Anarchy Classroom Free Speech Bulls Obedient Cleanliness Tranquil

Author:Mark Helprin

“Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.”

Men Common Cities Fortune Graves Empires Spares Roman Empire Vicissitudes

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.”

Left Dark Cities Dying Style Shots Instinct Village Trapped Echoes Veils Spectrum Rust Flowering Pistols Ominous

Book:Collected Poems 1931-74

Source: Collected Poems 1931-74

“San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it.”

Kind Bigs Cities Flower Hair Towns Chicago Small Town San Francisco Big Cities Coolness

Author:Dave Matthews

“I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York.”

People Way Sleep Rooms Cities Five Streets New York Mines Ten Shadow Train Bottom Snow Flight New York City Coal Starving Sleeping In

Author:Bob Dylan

“High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.”

Art Cities Eternal High Art

Author:Theophile Gautier

“New York is not a city to return to in defeat.”

Cities New York Return Defeat

Book:act one

Source: act one

“My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to. Their damp marine weather, blowing in from the southwest, came in the right direction. When the mountains are hidden under a low sky, one might almost imagine oneself to be in Britain.”

Light Might Used Felt Cities Imagine Sky Mountain Lows Oneself Weather Evening Britain Marine Right Direction Seattle Damp Lingering Homely Latitude

Book:Driving Home: An American Scrapbook

Source: Driving Home: An American Scrapbook

“No other American city is so intensely American as New York.”

Cities New York American Cities

Book:North America

Source: North America

“City diversity represents accident and chaos.”

Cities Diversity Chaos Accidents

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.”

World Cities New York Broken Broken Down Cities In The World

Author:Isaac Stern

“In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study”

Cities Morning Study Tables Cards Breakfast

Book:So Little Time: A Novel

Source: So Little Time: A Novel

“Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets.”

Law Cities Streets Weapons Threat Graves Officers Assault Law Enforcement Enforcement City Streets Assault Weapons

Author:Dianne Feinstein

“Walk with me to the edge of the city, / Take off your shoes and feel the earth. / Remember who you are. You are a star. / A mountain, that fountain in the sun. / Your heart is the velvet cave / Where birds sing.”

Feels Heart Earth Remember Stars Walks Cities Sun Journey Mountain Bird Who You Are Shoes Edges Caves Fountain Velvet Walk With Me Remember Who You Are

Author:Julia Cameron

“Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.”

Source: The Country and the City

“On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed: on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition; on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.”

Source: The Country and the City

“Although his playing career with the Broncos took place before my time with the team, I am well aware of what Floyd Little means to this franchise, city and league. Aside from his stellar play on the field, he helped make the Broncos relevant in the NFL and strengthened the bond between this team and its fans. He has waited a long time for this honor, and I couldn't be happier for him.”

Wells Mean Littles Long Play Cities Careers Team Fans Fields Honor Long Time League Nfl My Time Relevant Stellar Broncos

Author:Pat Bowlen

“Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.”

Home Earth Names Nations Chance Cities Skins Praise Green Here And There Workshops Green Earth

Book:The Poems of Basil Bunting

Source: The Poems of Basil Bunting

“It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bush. He reads, he picks stuff up, he talks to people. And he's pretty serious about his own Christian beliefs.”

People Christian Belief Stuff Cities Christianity Serious Picks Surprise Buzz Surprise Me

Author:Charles Colson

“Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.”

Men Way May Individual Community Freedom Cities Groups Oppression Village Small Groups Large Cities Small Villages

Author:Morris Raphael Cohen

“The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities”

Bigs Party Cities Areas Labour Big Cities Rural Areas

Author:Vince Cable

“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.'”

People Art Song Bits Sides Cities Pieces Performances Radio Pops Queens Call Me Eccentric Pop Music Gaga Performance Art Queen Song

Author:Lady Gaga

“There are so many things in the world - in the cities - so much to see. Does art need to represent this variety and contribute to its proliferation? Can art be that free? The difficulties begin when you understand what it is that the soul will not permit the hand to make.”

World Needs Doe Art Soul Hands Cities Art Is Difficulty Variety Permit Proliferation

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.”

People Stories America Reading Next Cities Watches New York Conversation Tables Train Newspapers Restaurants Subway

Author:Bill Geist

“Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world... because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more... connected to the seven billion other people.”

People World Mind Littles States Whole Earth Felt Cities Loneliness Planets Window Seven Connected Billions State Of Mind Location Centre

Author:Chris Hadfield

“I like Bergen County because it's nice and quiet. It's beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.”

Way I Can Beautiful Cities Nice Quiet County

Author:Wyclef Jean

“I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing 'Sin City'. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights.”

Firsts Guy Stuff Sin Cities New York Drawing Noir Vermont Tights Sin City

Author:Frank Miller

“My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games.”

Games Cities Family Deserve My Family London Fantastic Host Family Love Olympic Games

Author:Jose Mourinho

“The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.”

Made Use Government Political Decision Cities Military Perception Bases Nuclear Enormous Bombs Atoms Arsenal Atom Bomb

Book:A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

“On cable TV, they have a weather channel”

Cities Tvs Weather Cables Cable Tv

Author:Dan Spencer

“Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.”

Cities Fame Claims Seven Monopoly Rivals Birthplace Birth Place

Author:Thomas Seward

“Our guests have an insatiable curiosity for up close and personal worldwide adventures - whether one is taking a segment of the World Cruise or the entire voyage. Traveling to different countries aboard the luxurious floating resort that is Crystal Serenity is just one part of their experience. Our guests relish the opportunity to venture beyond the port cities to experience the destinations' culture, wildlife and unique treasures.”

“There has to be a consequence to failure. Schools in the inner cities cannot be told, 'Oh, we want you to teach every child to learn how to read and, incidentally, if you fail to do that there's no consequence,' .. There has to be a consequence to failure, and the Title I money needs to follow the child.”

Ifs Want Needs Children School Cities Teach Failing Consequence Titles Inner City

Author:Karl Rove

“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.”

Should Long Has Beens Cities Economy New York Should Have London Should Have Been City Life Tokyo Metropolis Cities At Night City Of London

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.”

Different Today Law Order Term Cities Danger New York Parks Theme Manhattan Eccentricity Theme Parks

Author:Chris Noth

“After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.”

Firsts Wells School Cities Achievement Primaries Grades Academic Forte Primary School Stellar Academic Achievement Penmanship

Author:Vernon L. Smith

“In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My Second City (improvisation) background comes in very handy for accent and body posture.”

Character Shows Body Cities Materials Conversation Backgrounds Compelling Accents Adore Improvisation Posture One Woman Handy Second City

Author:Valerie Harper

“And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a city or a nation, and rule it according to his or their private interest; which, because the laws in such cases are made according to the interest of a man, or of some few families, may be said to be the empire of men, and not of laws.”

Men May Art Made Said Government Law Nations Interest Cities Cases Modern Subjects Empires Prudence

Book:Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'

Source: Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'

“The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour….”

People Hours Cities Stage Bird Moved Miles Engines Steam Steam Engines

Author:Oliver Evans

“I believe God has instilled in us a craving, a deep desire to run with Him on a fantastic adventure, yet many of us crawl along in life without even a glimpse of our hidden passion. There has to be a reason for living. There must be a Camelot, a hidden Utopia where we can rest from our personal campaigns. Fantasy opens our eyes to a better place, a shining city we do not yet know. And these stories provide a mental bridge to that city as we pursue horizons we could never distinguish with our physical eyes.”

“Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.”

Life Cities Produce Citizens Taste Mark Ugly Advertising Anarchy Citizenship Ugliness Good Taste Good Citizen Good Citizenship

Author:Lester Beall

“I have no doubt that aggressively going after wrongdoing can result in real improvement. Fewer wrongdoers in city government means more honest employees; it means better city services; it means more efficient government. And punishing wrongdoing can have a strong ripple effect that deters others from going down the wrong path.”

Mean Real Government Strong Results Cities Path Doubt Effects Honest Improvement No Doubt Employee Fewer Efficient Aggression Ripple Wrongdoing Wrong Path Ripple Effect City Government

Author:David Hoffman

“In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.”

Body Age Cities Darkness Brother Huge Clouds Old Age Dust Frail Overtaking

Author:Guru Gobind Singh

“My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.”

Parent Cities Canada Scotland Residents Montreal

Book:Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal

Source: Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal

“I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.”

Thinking Cities New York Comfort Comfortable Skins New York City Comfortable In Your Own Skin

Author:Alex Rodriguez

“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.”