“A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.” PeopleYearsStillsTwoDoneEnoughFeelingsGovernmentRememberLyingLeftGivenFeltCitiesHavensWasteIgnorantDamageTwo YearsHurricanesDevastatedKatrinaAmerican CitiesHurricane Katrina Author:AnnaLynne McCord
“Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.” SometimesLyingBeliefCitiesWallDifficultyCity Walls Author:Rachel Hartman
“Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.” LittlesLyingCitiesGayButterflyMossBrusselsWoodlandGirdles Book:Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes Source: Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes
“When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.” MenLyingFallWhiteCitiesTownsFlyingSnowSettlingBrownTrafficFlakesDrowsy Author:Robert Bridges
“The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries--the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil which must one day be exhausted, the movies which fill America's theatres for six months and are forgotten. Many of its houses--especially the grander ones--have a curiously disturbing atmosphere, a kind of psychological dankness which smells of anxiety, overdrafts, uneasy lust, whisky, divorce and lies.” KindAmericaLyingHouseCitiesMonthsIndustryBecomingOne DayAnxietySixForgottenDivorceSmellOilTheatreLustPsychologicalLandscapeAtmosphereLos AngelesExhaustedSix MonthsDisturbingObsoleteImpermanenceMushroomsUneasyAircraftWhiskyBecoming Obsolete Author:Christopher Isherwood
“Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.” MenWorldLooksSelfLyingSocialCitiesFlowerBuiltMarkWingsBraveCellsBeesHivHivesLying MenCramps Author:Philip James Bailey
“Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.” KnowsWarRealLyingCitiesInternationalTerrorTerrorismIdeology Book:The meaning of treason Source: The meaning of treason
“I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.” IfsLyingFeltRoomsCitiesMurderWingsPhotographerMorgues Author:Weegee
“The heart itself is only a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and lions, there are poisonous beasts, and all the treasures of evil, there are rough and uneven roads, there are precipes; but there too is God and the angels, life is there, and the Kingdom, there too is light, and there the apostles and heavenly cities, and treasures of grace. All things lie within that little space.” HeartLittlesLightLife IsLyingEvilSpaceCitiesGraceAngelAll ThingsTreasureKingdomsBeastHeavenlyDragonsRoughLionsVesselApostlesPoisonous Author:Macarius of Egypt
“There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.” DifferentReasonLyingCitiesBehindsEconomicFashionPossibilityBuildingOne TimeConstructionTechnologicalDwelling Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all of them flattering. But the true, volatile charisma of New York lies in how balkanised it is.” ThinkingKnowsMayLyingCertainCultureCitiesNew YorkMassCharacteristicsNew York CityTourismPossessingFlatteringCharismaMass Culture Author:Jonathan Dee