2,405 Quotes About Cities

After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you.

The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground.

L.A. is my American city.

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.

And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.

I need to conduct myself differently in different communities. In my experience, the journalistic conventions - you know, I'm the reporter, you're the subject, the interviewee - actually tend to hold steady much more consistently in rural Africa than they do in the American inner city.

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.