Best cities & needs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I find the older I get, the lower in weight I go. It's harder to recover. Living in New York City, working a job that is unpredictable and at times stressful, you're lifting way more than your max because you need to push some weight around. You put an extra plate on for the release, and then you're sore the next week. Its stress release.”

Way Needs Jobs Next Cities Week New York Weight Stress Harder Release Extras New York City Plates Unpredictable Lifting Max Stressful Next Week Stress Release

Author:Danny Pino

“I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.”

Way Needs Cities New York New York City Bike

Author:Lela Rose

“I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.”

Knows Needs Names Deals Cities Streets Wall Target Tactics Occupy Wall Street

Author:Dana Spiotta

“In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.”

Ifs World Needs Persons Whole Home Certain Pay Cities Millions New York Right Now Normal Dollars Average Los Angeles More Money Million Dollars Iowa Starters

Author:Karrine Steffans

“This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty.”

Needs Writing Guy Song Cities Taught Yeah Royalty Nashville

Author:Katy Perry

“Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.”

Thinking Knows Needs Today Race Cities New York Tough New York City Invited Marathon Think Twice

Author:Martin Lel

“If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.”

People Ifs Knows Way Needs Kind Character Running Space Cities Treats Who You Are

Author:Chris Messina

“Every man needs a good, solid watch. My favorite watch is the Presidential Rolex. I own many watches, but this one is usually the one on my wrist. I buy mine in the Diamond District in New York City. Classic.”

Men Needs Cities Watches New York Mines My Favorite Every Man Presidential Classic New York City Diamond Wrists Rolex Wrist Watches

Author:French Montana

“Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.”

World Needs Cities Millions Streets Resources Embrace Competition Around The World Clients Competitors Ukrainian

Author:Victor Pinchuk

“Whether you actually can or can't fight city hall is of little relevance. Either way, when the need arises, you must!”

Way Needs Littles Fighting Politics Cities Arise Halls Relevance City Hall

Author:Derek R. Audette

“We need to review our policies as it applies to urban cities - You see, I'm losing either of them, but especially cities like Baltimore, we need to review them and I think we should come with no pre conception.”

Thinking Needs Should Cities Policy Losing Conception Reviews Urban Baltimore

Author:Julie Roginsky

“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

“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 Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.”

Men Needs Mind Children Body Desire Goal President Community Cities Quality Beauty Talent Demand Concerned Hunger Presidential Goods Quantity Commerce Great Society

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening.”

Needs Dream Cities Sweet June Oxford Spires

Author:Matthew Arnold

“All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We got plenty of actors. So we don't need some cat from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme, or whatever the hell it is, playing people from Montana. And in the reverse, they got plenty of people from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme that they don't need our asses coming over there trying to do British accents.”

People Needs Trying Actors Cities Hell Cat British Ass Plenty Reverse Accents Jersey New Jersey Kansas Montana Texan Wyoming Kansas City Rosemary Thyme Cardiff

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.”

“We need more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom.”

Needs Self Cities Special Serious Unique Privacy Traffic Citizenship Imaginative Utopia Ecological Assessment Programmes Ingenious Special Relationship Plasticity Privacy And Freedom

Book:Soft City: Picador Classic

Source: Soft City: Picador Classic

“Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.”

Needs Two Realizing Hours Cities Rome Documentaries

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.”

Ifs Needs Important Use Action Energy Cities Talking Building Green Important Things Impact Patterns Priorities Etc Goods Consumption Carbon Transportation Fractions Energy Use

Author:Alex Steffen

“Our cities need to change, fast. Tactical Urbanism is a guided tour of solutions created when local people decide they can't wait for politics to catch up before they improve their neighborhoods. This weathervane book deserves a place on any urbanist's bookshelf.”

People Needs Book Waiting Cities Solutions Deserve Locals Neighborhood Need A Change Bookshelves Tactical

Author:Alex Steffen

“To save energy, New York City is now dimming the lights of the skyscrapers and the skyline at night. There's a bad side to this. If you need Batman, you have to text him.”

Ifs Needs Light Night Energy Sides Cities New York New York City Skyscraper Skylines Saving Energy

Author:David Letterman

“One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.”

Needs Self Cities Mystery Streets Guides Layers Sooner Or Later Secrecy Inner Self Inner Life Inner City Impasse

Author:Anais Nin

“Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a letter to a sponsored child, serve in the inner city, at a food bank, with a crisis pregnancy center. Make time for shut-ins, the elderly, the sick, the single-parents, the new believers. Just find one way you can make your awareness of your gift-graced life intersect with a real place of need - and Christ in us will do the rest.”

“Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion.”

Needs Cities Compassion Practice Kindness Virtue Modern Offers Towns Neighbor Urban Anonymity Unlearn Unfriendly Gregariousness

Book:The province of the heart

Source: The province of the heart

“What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millennia. What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable. The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles.”

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.”

Source: The Rebel Girl: an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926).

“I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.”

Thinking Needs Feels Different Culture Cities Building Essence India Architect Singapore Kansas Arkansas Kansas City

Author:Moshe Safdie

“We need this city to actually live up to its name-The City of Angels. We need to spread our wings. We need to show that we are more than red carpets, we are more than Hollywood, that we are a city ourselves of open arms. We are a city of generosity and compassion.”

Needs Shows Names Cities Compassion Arms Angel Red Hollywood Wings Spread Generosity Carpet Red Carpet Open Arms City Of Angels

Author:Maria Shriver

“The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it.”

Want Needs Humans Enough Space Cities Color Nurturing Saturated

Author:Janet Echelman

“We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times.”

Needs Cities Modern Development Comfortable Tasks Green Our Time Landscaping

Author:Jens Jensen

“Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.... for really new ideas of any kind--no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be--there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.”

“Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.”

Needs Children Able Values Rooms Cities Streets Our Children Injustice Classroom City Streets

Author:Barbara Coloroso

“...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.”

“The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment.”

Needs States Age Political Community Lines Cities Leader Cases Becoming Dollars Investment Bottom Locals Compelling Bottom Line Civics Scarce Becoming More American Cities Local Community

Author:Mick Cornett

“If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!”

Ifs Life Needs Mean Bigs Cities Clean Dirty Big Cities

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.”

Needs Sin Cities Our Lives Areas Refuse Surrender Engaging Surrender To God

Author:Matt Chandler

“The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of the environment. We may create a hostile world: a world to bruise ourselves against; a world of sprawling cities, unplanned or badly planned; a world whose water is full of sludge, whose winds are full of soot; a world whose landscape has been totally neglected, stripped, marred, and wasted. All of this need not happen if we choose well, and particularly if we plan well and if we act well.”

Ifs World Needs Wells May Has Beens Happens Suffering Water Cities Environment Plans Wind Environmental Landscape Hostile Emergencies Stewardship Neglected Careless Starks Bruises

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.”

Needs Bigs Culture Stuff Space Cities Silence Middle Listening Grew Grew Up Horse Contemporary Grass Mexico Riding Bugs Big Cities Open Spaces New Mexico Bombarded Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Tom Ford

“The concept of who your audience is becomes more important than your site. Sometimes you can be commissioned to do a piece in Strasburg, and it works. Sometimes you're commissioned to do a piece somewhere else and it doesn't work, but then it moves to another city, the people embrace it, and becomes part of them. You just misjudged the needs of the people. Art is about giving people material and things to work with to fulfill whatever needs they have.”

People Needs Giving Art Important Sometimes Moving Cities Audience Pieces Materials Art Is Concepts Embrace Site Somewhere Else

Author:Lawrence Weiner

“New York has made me so paranoid, too. Whenever I visit another city, I always act like I'm from there, so the cab driver doesn't rip me off. I'm always like, "Yeah, it's good to be back home. Back here where I grew up. Yeah. Here in Tokyo. ... Uh, driver, I need to go to my old stomping grounds. That would be the Holiday Inn. And the address appears to be the pound sign."”

Needs Made Home Would Be Funny Cities Comedy New York Grew Grew Up Yeah Addresses Holiday Pounds Drivers Rip Back Home Paranoid Cab Tokyo Inns Stomping Cab Drivers

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“My heart and my love is in the country because something feels pure and noble and good there, but at the same time, obedience draws me to cities, which are full of cultures that are interesting and fun. I always swore I hated New York. Since having this revelation that cities are where people are, where the need is, I'm growing to love New York.”

People Needs Feels Heart Country Culture Fun Love Is Interesting Cities Growing New York My Heart Pure Draws Noble Obedience Hated Revelations

Author:Josh Garrels

“One important role for the city is to conduct studies to document areas of greatest need, and to facilitate coordination between our public and private transportation options to weave it into a dense tapestry of accessible and reliable transportation.”

Needs Important Cities Roles Study Areas Documents Transportation Dense Facilitate Tapestry Coordination

Author:Mark Noble

“Government and politics isn't like a reality TV show. It's not about voting the bad guys out of the house. You know, it's about what do we need to take our country or our state or our city forward? And people, frankly, would be well advised to really get back into understanding politics.”

“We need to assume that aspirations of people in villages are nothing less than the aspirations of people in the cities. They need a change in their lifestyle.”

People Needs Cities Empowerment India Assuming Lifestyle Aspiration Village Need A Change

Author:Narendra Modi

“Assuming that a tax increase is necessary, it is clearly preferable to impose the additional cost on land by increasing the land tax, rather than to increase the wage tax - the two alternatives open to the City (of Pittsburgh). It is the use and occupancy of property that creates the need for the municipal services that appear as the largest item in the budget - fire and police protection, waste removal, and public works. The average increase in tax bills of city residents will be about twice as great with wage tax increase than with a land tax increase.”

“If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods. Sometimes the signal light loves you. Sometimes they fight you. When you're hunting for a new building, you hope the city is on your side. You have to use a little bit of thinking--you might call it the process of elimination--and you need a little bit of instinct, but not too much of either. If you think too hard, you overshoot your target and end up at the Pier or the Tenderloin. If you relax and let the city help, the destination does all the work for you.”

“I love Mexico because that's where I'm from, but my favorite city, whenever I need to recharge, I love Paris. I get very inspired while I'm there. There's so much art and culture, and Paris, before New York, that was the capital of the world. And I love history too, so I go there. It does something special to me.”

World Needs Doe Art Culture Cities Special New York Inspired My Favorite Paris Mexico Something Special Special To Me Art And Culture Very Inspired Favorite City

Author:Diego Boneta

“One of the reasons there may be a trend toward moving out of the cities, again, it may be conscious or it may be unconscious, but it is a desire to connect more with nature. And with the natural rhythms. We [people] need that! We've been missing it.”

People Needs May Reason Moving Desire Natural Cities Missing Conscious Rhythm Unconscious Trends Moving Out Missing It

Author:Shakti Gawain

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