2,405 Quotes About Cities

  • Author John McCauley
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    The general public, which usually prefers big blockbusters, is now willing to give smaller films a chance. They are not only popular in big cities anymore.

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  • Author John McPhee
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    Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sanders.

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  • Author John Milton
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    Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

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  • Author John Mulvihill
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    One of our goals was to talk to all the cities and see if we could convince everybody to do kind of a regional facility.

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  • Author Johnny Marr
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    I moved to Portland because Modest Mouse is there. I didn't necessarily mean to live there permanently, but I've got a really good feeling for it. The sensibility there really suits me. I happened to have grown up in Manchester, a city that was a pretty cool place to be a musician. It's close to Portland in a lot of ways.

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  • Author Jon McGregor
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    The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

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  • Author Joseph Massey
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    In the last two years, Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) has reached more than 500 cities and operating from more than 5,000 terminals in the country.

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