The City Quotes
The City Quote of the day
The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.
I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way.
Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.
A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.
When I play supernatural characters in 'Ghost Rider' or 'City Of Angels,' the possibilities are limitless. The possibilities are endless, you can do so much with that.
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.
No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something
