“I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them.” MindSometimesHoursCitiesPassingPassingsPassing Through Author:Will Oldham
“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
“I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.” KnowsTryingKindCountrySometimesLostPleasureCitiesCadillacs Author:Black Francis
“If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.” IfsWorldHas BeensSometimesCareNationsCommonCitiesGenerationsStreetsTownsDon't CareUglyLondonBreathingRestlessRespectableGloomyThis GenerationPageantStreet LifeWhitechapel Author:Willa Cather
“A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.” IfsHumansHas BeensSaidRealSometimesAmericaPoliticalLeftCitiesGenerationsCrimeCivilizationRemainsViolentPeacefulProductiveStatisticsProgressiveStrictHuman HistoryProsperousForeigners Author:L. Neil Smith
“Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it. In Los Angeles, it is quite the opposite: it is an older city than it might seem to be, but you don't perceive this -- every day you get out of your home, you are driving somewhere and sometimes you get this impression that everything was put there the night before.” FeelsSometimesHomeSeemsMightNightWalksCitiesOppositesWeightDrivingImpressionPerceiveLos AngelesBarcelona Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.” MadeSelfSometimesLastsAmericaChoicesCultureSinCitiesFantasyGrewComfortTasteApproachPicksHollywoodMade ItDeceptionFrontiersAmerican CultureVegasLas VegasVisionariesSelf DeceptionAmbiguousReinventionQuintessentialProminencePraguePeoria Author:Hal Rothman
“Beautiful fans of Oklahoma City, I can’t say enough about you guys. All the support you give our team. The home-court advantage we have is the best I’ve ever seen. We disappoint you sometimes, but we try our best every single night to win for you guys. And we want to win a championship for you guys.” WantGivingTryingI CanSometimesEnoughHomeBeautifulNightGuyWinningCitiesSupportTeamFansAdvantageCourtNbaChampionshipDisappointSupport YouOklahomaMvpOklahoma City Author:Kevin Durant
“There's something that I can't describe about the city [Portland] that I really love - just physically - how it feels to walk around there, and have coffee there. Also, the way that it's a little overcast sometimes. Something about Portland just really resonated with me.” WayFeelsLittlesI CanSometimesWalksCitiesCoffeePortlandOvercast Author:Fred Armisen
“Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.” PeopleRealSometimesAmericaWishSoundVoicePartyCitiesStrangeLonelyGasGreat People Book:Addresses of President Wilson Source: Addresses of President Wilson