Cityscape Quotes

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.

I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.

Anyday, one can walk down the street in a big city and see a thousand people. Any photographer can photograph these people - but very few photographers can make their prints not only reproductions of the people taken, but a comment upon them - or more, a comment upon their lives - or more still, a comment upon the social order that creates these lives.

At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?

I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there, but it's really hard to make it into a Las Vegas version of it because it doesn't look at all like Las Vegas.

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

I love to visit New York, but Los Angeles, to me, is a great city.

It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.

Los Angeles is great for partying and also for its sights and sounds.

Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!

The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape

They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.

In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity.

Most of the job on DDP was already done by the time I became mayor. So was Gwanghwamun Square, described by many architects as the city's worst architectural creation, and the new city hall. I did not think that redoing them would be the right approach as that would only create new problems.

I grew up in New York City and in London.

I love New York; I love the city. It's impossible. It's a theme park of a city, isn't it.

I think Chicago's a great city. Like New York, it's full of energy.

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

I'm kind of getting over the whole Manhattan life. I'm from Vancouver, and that means mountains and a lot of space.

I used to go from place to place by tram. A shilling would take you all around London and the suburbs.