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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

I rip off the wrapping and tear through the box
Till I end up with 45 new pairs of socks. — Owl City

The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time. — Drew Carey

Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life must grow. — Jane Jacobs

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

Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies. — Annie Dillard

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

Smoke and dust hanging over the city like the hand of an angry God — Ron Veness

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

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

My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army. — Amity Gaige

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

The role of the animal messenger in the dreams of modern city-dwellers is often to recall us to our wild side, and the natural path of our energy. — Robert Moss

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

In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city. — Olafur Eliasson

All I care about is money and the city that I'm from. — Drake

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

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea. — Philip Reeve

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

It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later, so let's be fair. — Ray Nagin

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

to a High City with him . . . alone. And those who know he lives in the — Nadine Brandes

Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you. — Jonah

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

We stared out at the city that hummed and glittered like a computer chip deep in some unknowable machine, holding its secret like a poker hand — Janet Fitch

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'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible. — Imtiaz Ali

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

That's the confidence that New York gave me. There was finally a city that appreciated what I had to say and the honesty with which I said it. — Eddie Huang

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 of Wildwood has been fantastic in helping us and supporting this event. This is a small way of the Soul saying thanks to our fans. — Ron Jaworski

The city was radiant and I felt untouchable. — Stephanie Danler

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city. — Daryl Hall

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

When the sky fell in
When the hurricanes came for me
I could finally crash again
And that's how I became the sea. — Owl City

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

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

You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something. — Banksy

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender it - this was the wise saying of Sir Thomas Browne. — A.S. Byatt

The modern city consists of ... dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise ... — Alexis Carrel

Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out. — Dan Gilroy

I hike a lot. The view and the air up in the hills are much greater than the hustle and bustle of the city. It makes it all look so silly and small. — Inbar Lavi

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

And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4. — Jerry Coleman

Dear Edward and Jacob, I adore you both, but I'm spending the weekend with Jace. Sorry! Love, Stephenie — Stephenie Meyer