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The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy. — Georg Simmel

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world ... — Alan Moore

The future begins today. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Cairo is an exploding modern metropolis which nevertheless preserves within its heart the finest medieval city in the world... — Michael Haag

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"? — William Cobbett

I always figured Metropolis was north of New York, actually. Between New York and Boston, in my mind. — Jim Lee

San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry. — Jack Kenny

Thriving metropolis. Home to dozens. — Patrick Rothfuss

Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis. — H.L. Mencken

Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career. — Pankaj Mishra

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange. — Jane Jacobs

Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils. — Bion Of Borysthenes

You can decide to get bitter, or you can decide to get better. The choice is yours. — Gabriella Gill

The city of Tehran is a very modern metropolis, and there's an emphasis in the Islamic republic on science and advancement and technology. — Hooman Majd

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires. — Rem Koolhaas

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. — John Berger

London is on the whole the most possible form of life. — Henry James

I never write metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop. — Mark Twain

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. — John Kenneth Galbraith

CHAPTER XLII AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE OF OLIVER'S, EXHIBITING DECIDED MARKS OF GENIUS, BECOMES A PUBLIC CHARACTER IN THE METROPOLIS — Charles Dickens

The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like Who on top of this? — Mos Def

Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis. — Frank Miller

All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

To live in Metropolis was to know that the exceptional was as commonplace as diet soda, that abnormality was the popcorn norm. — Salman Rushdie

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis. — Anurag Kashyap

All great art is born of the metropolis. — Ezra Pound

The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever. — Berenice Abbott

Military parades roll down the Champs-Elysees, but pedestrians stroll up ["East Meets West on the Champs-Elysees," Metropolis, March 2006, p73] — Veronique Vienne

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women. — Mary Wollstonecraft

When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax, — Robert Moses