2,405 Quotes About Cities

America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.

Not in a world domination sense but in the sense that we have more places to play than 20 cities in Canada.

The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls.

If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.

That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.

I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.

We do those because our research shows that high-tech growth is a critical part of regional economic development. Those cities and regions that do have a strong tech component generally tend to do better than others.

Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily.

I've learned over the years that geography is not that important, except that I seem to work better in the country than the city. I get more done. There's just less happening around me, and I have more time and concentration to work on music.