I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

What I do know is that liberal Democrat policies in our big cities are not helping anybody, especially our big cities.

For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.

It's a blue-collar city [Manchester] that's transitioning into a white collar place and people are getting priced out.

We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night.

Everybody likes driving through scenic, winding roads. It's hard to find people who like sitting in traffic in cities.

If the choice is go to war or end up with an American city hit by weapon of mass destruction, then the choice is easy.

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

For me, selfishly, Toronto is my favorite city in the world. It's the greatest city and you have the whole world here.

The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

You must never be afraid in New York City, because then you will call bad stuff to you and you will not like it there.

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

The violence in the schools of today will inevitably graduate to the streets, offices, cities, and borders of tomorrow.

I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.

In cities like Miami, my hair can get so frizzy, it looks crazy. I use TRESemm Extra Hold hairspray. I use a lot of it.

I'm going to help the African-Americans. I'm going to help the Latinos, Hispanics. I am going to help the inner cities.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.

Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

It's certainly easy to meditate on top of a mountain, but one should be also able to meditate in the heart of the city.

I love San Francisco, and it offers spectacular scenery of the city, and it adds to the uplifting quality of the movie.

I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.

Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.

Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.

I drafted and proposed a law to secure our borders and build the border wall - and make the sanctuary cities pay for it.

Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people

Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

The old Catholic parties hounded me with a Christian hatred from station to station, city to city, one stage to another.

Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.

My vision for the country is to urbanise rural areas. What is available in the cities must be available in the villages.

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.

You want each city to be different, not just see the same shopping malls and stores wherever you go. That's not healthy.

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