“Things are so busy and so quick, and there’s so much going on, you have to realise the time when you have to take a step back, take a breath and really think back to where you come from. I’m from a very, very rural place. There’s really nobody out there, just roads and farms. I had a long transition to get to where I am now. I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I’d literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It’s been great. I’m based in New York and every day it's amazing.” PeopleThinkingLongYoungStuffCitiesStepsMillionsFiveNew YorkAreasBreathsMovedBusyRealisingFarmsTransitionDirtCentreWhere You ComeDirt Roads Author:Diego Klattenhoff
“At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back with the first step he makes into these precincts. Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her.” MenWorldFirstsRealityFallCitiesStepsWiseJudgingHeroCircumstancesShameFoolishForestsGatesCustomsFirst StepsSanctityDwarfsDiscredit Book:Essays and Lectures Source: Essays and Lectures
“Delta's plan to upgrade JFK facilities will improve our customers' travel experience and make it more efficient and enjoyable to travel through one of the world's premier international gateways. Our customers should make no mistake that Delta is committed to New York and that this summer's expansion at JFK is an important step in offering enhanced service to customers in most every direction we serve from New York City.” WorldShouldImportantCitiesMistakeStepsPlansNew YorkSummerInternationalCommittedCustomersNew York CityEfficientOfferingExpansionEnjoyableFacilityGatewaysDeltaTravel Experience Author:Jim Whitehurst
“Many other cities could go the way that Los Angeles went last night unless the president is willing to step in and take some strong action in terms of letting people know that he cares about this issue.” PeopleKnowsWayCareActionLastsNightStrongPresidentTermCitiesStepsIssuesWillingLos AngelesLast Night Author:Maxine Waters
“(with trout) we are touching something unrestricted, wild and arcane, beyond the reach of those who carefully maintain one-dimensional lives. There is, I tell myself, someone in the city nearby whose one contact today with unreconstructed nature will be to step into a diminutive pile of poodle excrement” TodayCitiesStepsSeaRiversFishesContactBoatLakesFishingTouchingTroutPoodlesArcane Author:Russell Chatham
“If you've been to Moscow, it's a really exciting and great city, but it still feels like you should be a little careful about which way you're going to step.” IfsWayFeelsShouldLittlesStillsCitiesStepsLike YouExcitingCarefulMoscowGreat Cities Author:Kenneth Branagh
“It is a game of chess with this city. We'll have to see how it is going to play out. The city goes back and forth trying to figure out what programs to cut and what they have funding for. What I would love to see is for the city to step up and run the rink 10 months out of the year so kids can play in the summer and we can have camps here in Glenwood.” TryingYearsPlayRunningKidsGamesCitiesStepsCuttingFiguresMonthsSummerProgramChessHaving FunCampsFundingBack And ForthStep Up Author:Bill Vaughan
“There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.” LongWaitingCitiesStepsTalentSouthBeachComptonLong Beach Author:Ice Cube
“Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities.” PeopleFirstsOpportunityCitiesStepsImpossibleLandFindingsFarmersFirst Steps Author:Mohsin Hamid
“When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.” YearsFactsThreeChallengesCitiesStepsTakenTeamPrideTypeProudDeserveYears AgoDeterminationAcceptedIntenseNbaThree YearsChampionshipBullsNba Championships Author:Doug Collins
“In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.” MenHeartIdeasSoulDreamRealityActionFormNightSufferingHumanityFallSpeakCitiesStepsBloodColdSolitudeEternalBirdFlowHotGreenCloudsForestsWanderHillsDiamondMultipleMultitudesPearlsHeart LoveTime PassesSapEbb And FlowCold NightDiamonds And Pearls Book:William Shakespeare Source: William Shakespeare
“The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like the farm I grew up on in Vermont, the kinds of things that can happen seem much more extreme. Maybe because it's more personal. Or maybe because you block out the things that happen in the city. But it's like seeing things born, live, die, fall apart, and start over again, without any intermediary clean-up steps from some corporate organization.” FeelsKindHomeSeemsHappensDiesFallBornCitiesStepsViolenceSeeingNew YorkGrewGrew UpOrganizationCleanExtremesBlockCorporatePrivacyFarmsFalling ApartStarting OverMundaneVermont Author:Elizabeth Neel
“I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under the pressure of my step, I want the streets to emit the precise odor of a diamond necklace. I want the newspapers I read to smell like the violins left in pawnshops by weeping hobos on Christmas Eve. I want to carry luggage that reeks of the neurons in Einstein's brain. I want a city's gases to smell like the golden belly hairs of the gods. And when I gaze at a televised picture of the moon, I want to detect, from a distance of 239,000 miles, the aroma of fresh mozzarella.” WantLeftCitiesBrainStepsStreetsHairMoonPressureDistanceTrainSmellMilesNewspapersGoldenDiamondPreciseBellyWeepingViolinSnowflakeOdorCafesNeuronsCometsLuggageChristmas EveNecklacesWant To TravelAromaHobosMozzarella Author:Tom Robbins