cosmopolitan environment Quotes

I live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.

I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.

I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid is to raise them in New York City. I can see this with my own children.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate villages, some of them existing on different continents, some of them existing in different centuries, and many of them at war with one another. English is not the primary language in many of these villages, but the Roman alphabet does still have a slight edge.

I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.

I was 17 when I moved to NYC . I'm now 32. But I do know I can't see myself living anywhere else. I love the food, the fashion, art, the intelligence of this city and the people that live in it.

My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games.

Well, you can't say you are lucky to live in Champaign, but I was lucky to be at the University of Illinois. It's a very international cosmopolitan community. That's very helpful.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

London is like the grave in one respect -- any man can make himself at home there; and whenever a man finds himself homeless elsewhere, he had better either die or go to London.

New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a perfect place for me.

I love New York. I love how integrated it is, how everybody lives together.

You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?