People discuss the importance of choosing the right city to live in, but it’s even more granular than that: choose the right neighborhood. In my case, I didn’t appreciate how much living in a walkable...

You can’t understand a city without using its public transportation system.

I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..

Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.

Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

Penny knew also she loved the country for its beauty. Cities could be magnificent, astounding, fantastic, but they were not consistently beautiful and simple. Penny liked uncomplicated beauty.

I didn’t choose Paris. I like to think that the city chose me.

There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true.

He liked however the open shutters; he opened everywhere those Mrs. Muldoon had closed, closing them as carefully afterwards, so that she shouldn’t notice: he liked–oh this he did like, and above all in the...

I just did a part in ‘Sin City 2.’ I got to do a scene with Ray Liotta. Amazing man, extraordinary gentleman who was just so kind to me… I’m so excited about that; I...

[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of grey—What I’d seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime for life a disregarding.Money to make and to grow oldWhat about the hands to hold?Deadlines, projects, people...

I’d ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It’s got to go. It’s got to go a long way from here.

Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the media spotlight is more brutal, and the expectations are higher than they’d be...

A lot of people don’t know this, but Toronto is probably the most multicultural city in North America.

I’ve been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you’ve seen one city slum you’ve seen them all.

The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer be a builder of forms alone, but a builder of complete ambiances.

There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.

I’m in love with New York. It matches my mood. I’m not overwhelmed. It is the suitable scene for my ever ever heightened life. I love the proportions, the amplitude, the brilliance, the polish, the...

I don’t want to compare my city to Zurich; thank God we’re not that boring. Rio is advancing fast, but we’re at a different phase in our civilization.

The man slips along the stoically congealed houses Perpendicular like them A moving ornament Burning fiction His fragility contradicts the duration of his torments

This is what I’ve always loved about a city, all the worlds hidden away inside, largest of aquariums.

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.

No gymnasium, no theatre, no forum? Where is the life a Roman man should lead?

It sounds really over the top to say you’re responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many...

My mouth opened.It happened.Yes, with my head thrown into the sky, I started howling.Arms stretched out next to me, I howled, and everything came out of me. Visions pored up my throat and past voices...

Laughing like crazythe child goes back to the citygives birth to monsterscreates earthquakeshairy women run nakedold folks who look like fetuses laugh and smoke.

I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.

I’ve always liked New York, always liked the city.

Here too, as in the Commune almost a century earlier, the struggle was articulated around the hope that ‘the antithesis between the everyday and the Festival–whether of labour or of leisure–will no longer be a...

I was at Second City L.A., going through the conservatory, and I graduated in 2004 and I got ‘SNL’ in 2005.

…my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City. (The Art of Fiction, No. 68. The Paris Review, No. 82, Winter 1981.)

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

You are like a city on the hill; you can’t be hidden out of sight in any way! Beautify your environment and your influence will be seen from afar!

The ride had begun.The theatre and club spectaculars seemed to stick up into the sky at all sorts of crazy angles, probably because most of them were planted diagonally on rooftops. Follow Thru, Whoopee, Show...

There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street...

Some nights, we were a city of two.

I love New York City.

For a city to be beautiful, it must have a mysterious air!

It is nothing short of baffling to me how a city like Melbourne, where I struggle to find accessible facilities on a very regular basis, could be considered the most livable city in the world....

The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.

I didn’t know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city can be.

I really love Miami, but I don’t think the architecture matches the city. It’s a bit too commercial.

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that’s very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.

The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides...

An age-old city is like a pond. With its colours and reflections. Its chills and murk. Its ferment, its sorcery, its hidden life.A city is like a woman, with a woman’s desires and dislikes. Her...

I’m just going to say her name,” he said.

It seemed to him he had waited an age for some stir of the great grim hush; the life of the town was itself under a spell–so unnaturally, up and down the whole prospect of...

Manhattan… capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.