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I'm missing the bride gene. I should be put in a test tube and studied.
— Carrie Bradshaw
There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
— Elbert Hubbard
Maybe you can't have it both ways. His life and your life. How do you put two lives together, anyway?
— Candace Bushnell
Washington ... has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.
— Richard J. Maybury
He's body slammed enough people to start a new country. And there could be a neighbouring city for the people he's punched in the throat
— Gena Showalter
New York City isn't Chuck E. Cheese. We don't have ball pits for the kids to play in. We have titty bars and crack.
— Jon Stewart
Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
— Ransom Riggs
I liked the streets as much as museums, and I spent hours in the city wandering around, inhaling the garbage.
— Siri Hustvedt
Wolf Spring s not a city of finery. It is of fishers and farmers and folk on the docks, and no one wears their fine blacks except on Beltane.
— Kendare Blake
Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.
— Brian K. Vaughan
I'll give you the moon and the stars, Princess ... and maybe a city to go along with it.
— Con Template
If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.
— Alexei Sayle
No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.
— Mark McGinty
I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.
— Aravind Adiga
The air was not as hazy here as it was over the rest of the city, and the sky overhead had achieved a color that was almost blue.
— Cassandra Clare
I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.
— Michael Bloomberg
A pocket full of spare change and anger unlimited, what more does a 30-year-old innocent need to make his way in the city?
— Thomas Pynchon
The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.
— Gianfranco Ferre
When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.
— Jane Jacobs
Stuart is good for Manchester City. It is not hard to see his passion for the game, and his commitment.
(on Stuart Pearce) — Robbie Fowler
(on Stuart Pearce) — Robbie Fowler
I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It's fresh and so open. It's definitely one of my favorite places.
— Stefon Harris
What I love about London is the energy and the creativity. Culturally, it is such a happening city, from the cuisine to the fashion.
— Monika Chiang
Yeah, Vegas is the number one place to go. Vegas is Sin City. It really gives you a feeling of looseness and anything can go.
— James Belushi
You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about the environment.
— Graham Hill
That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams.
The girls of 1929. — Anna Godbersen
The girls of 1929. — Anna Godbersen
In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
— Olafur Eliasson
And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
— John Guare
When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.
— Chris Bohjalian
Boston was a hard city sometimes. The winters were hell, but the people here were strong, passionate, and often painfully direct.
— Meredith Wild
Give me excess of love, whatever it costs. We pay with our souls, and if we die with our souls intact we know we haven't loved enough.
— Louise Carey
If my mind and my city were the same thing then I was losing my mind.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone's wallets.
— Terry Pratchett
Winter laid her solemn hands across the city and stroked all the colours out of the sky
— Kate Tempest
The evening was still warm enough for shirtsleeves, and the city was clinging to summer like a wannabe trophy wife to a promising center forward.
— Ben Aaronovitch
The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones."
"That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll. — Sarah Rees Brennan
"That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll. — Sarah Rees Brennan
Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world.
— L. Welch Pogue
In those years only the dead smiled, Glad to be at rest: And Leningrad city swayed like A needless appendix to its prisons.
— Anna Akhmatova
The alumni of Second City from John Belushi to Martin Short have changed my entire life and brought a new kind of comedy to America and the World.
— Bernie Brillstein
I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.
— Beverly Cleary
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
— Walt Whitman
John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film.
— Mink Stole
Come on," he said.
"Let's get back to Alec before he decides Isabelle and Simon are having sex off in the caves and starts freaking out. — Cassandra Clare
"Let's get back to Alec before he decides Isabelle and Simon are having sex off in the caves and starts freaking out. — Cassandra Clare
I don't like L.A. I've always said that, and people hate on me for it. I don't really like the city.
— Shenae Grimes
A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.
— Anatole Broyard
... not a fort at all, but a giant amulet, a city made from the magic in our hearts and the land itself.
— A.A. Attanasio
We get so used to the gregarious nature of our towns and villages that we forget how crowded our existence has become.
— Fennel Hudson
London was one of the worst places to have a bad day and one of the best places to have a good day
— Mhairi McFarlane
Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
— Mario Batali
There is no tougher job in America than being a cop on the beat in a major city in this country, big and brawling.
— Mark Shields
We hope we have it contained. So far, it looks as though Afton, Wyoming, and Cedar City and Kanab in Utah are the only hot spots.
— Marc Cameron
The small pulse of the life within me, and the great heart of the city around me, seemed to be sinking in unison.
— Wilkie Collins
With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.
— Olga Kurylenko
the natural animosity between those who slept and those who were stirring in the sleeping city.
— Stefan Zweig
No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.
— John Vinocur
I grew up in D.C. but always had a love affair with New York. I did 'Central Park West,' 'Sex and the City,' 'Law & Order.'
— Darren Star
It takes a traveler, not a tourist, to search for something deeper. Travelers want to find the wavelength on which they and the city connect.
— David Levithan
Flight attendants all over the world saw 'Sex and the City.' Doesn't matter what country you are in. The flight attendants know Jack Berger.
— Ron Livingston
Mercer looked around. There was no way anyone could hear. But the walls could, and the earth, and the ghosts of horses, and the state of Georgia.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.
— Bill Huizenga
I love traveling around promoting different movies because I'm always looking at different places, and I always walk around to see the city.
— Christopher McQuarrie
I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the same of London or Paris, too.
— Pierce Brosnan
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?
— Margaret Mead
The city was radiant and I felt untouchable.
— Stephanie Danler
San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
You can look at a hundred pictures and a dozen maps, but unless you've been to the city and felt its pulse, you really
— Chris Colfer
People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey
city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
— Michel De Certeau
The modern city consists of ... dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise ...
— Alexis Carrel
What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.
— Christian Bale
He stared down at the empty street and wondered why all city streets resembled each other at night. He
— Henning Mankell
I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?
— LeBron James