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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.
Christopher Fieldes
In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
Simon Hoggart
Paris is the caf? of Europe.
Ferdinando Galiani
Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. On Washington D. C.
Frank Dane
Cities are ... distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.
Jean Baudrillard
The fog comes on little cat feet.It sits lookingover harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on.
Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems (19
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.
Federico Garcia Lorca
Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. About Paris
Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
Neil Simon
The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.
Henry Miller
Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls, I passed close to the Marsh refinery, which seemed to be oddly free from the noise of industry. The building stood on the steep river bluff near a bridge and an open confluence of streets which I took to be the earliest civic center, displaced after the Revolution by the present Town Square.
H.P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
Arnold J. Toynbee
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
Charles Baudelaire
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
Fred A. Allen
Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
W. C. Fields
The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.
Desmond Morris
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.
Jane Jacobs
Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.
Luis Fortuno
The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.
Jay Leno
