cities quotes

• As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him. ( Akhenaton) [face/nature/cities/rage]
• Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake. (Jean Baudrillard) [cities/charm/king]
• Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for. (Jean Baudrillard) [cities/people/look/life]
• Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. (Italo Calvino) [cities/exchange/form/order]
• The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. (Italo Calvino) [cities/willpower/start/cities]
• A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man. (Thomas Carlyle) [cities]
• In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves; modern society acknowledges no neighbor. (Benjamin Disraeli) [cities/men/desire/state]
• Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [cities/growth/people/talkative]
• The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [cities/spirit/garden]
• We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. (John F. Kennedy) [willpower/cities/nation]
• I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit. (John F. Kennedy) [dust/cities/willpower/politics]
• The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment. (Claude Levi-Strauss) [phenomenon/creation/cities/integration]
• Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [take/more/cities]
• To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. (George Orwell) [cities]
• The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. (George Orwell) [atom/cities/sun]
• The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men. (John Ruskin) [cities/men]
• Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates. (John Ruskin) [cities]
• An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. (John Ruskin) [cities/painter/nature]
• American energy is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism and acquisitiveness. Into hectic philanthropy. Into benighted moral crusades, the most spectacular of which was Prohibition. Into an awesome talent for uglifying countryside and cities. Into the loquacity and torment of a minority of gadflies: artists, prophets, muckrakers, cranks, and nuts. And into self-punishing neuroses. But the naked violence keeps breaking through, throwing everything into question. (Susan Sontag) [anxiety/talent/cities/minority]
• The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible. (George Washington) [cities/time/goodwill]
• The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there. (Oscar Wilde) [cities/america/take/culture]
• It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible, ... They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated. ( Bjork) [design/cities/look/sound]
• [Other than those details, the proud mixed-ethnicity actress added that the game will concentrate on several ideals of great importance to her: racial tolerance, nonviolence, and geographical awareness.] I'm going to pick seven cities in the world, because I travel so much and I think there's so many cool, creative people in the world; I want tap into that, and I want to make it racially diverse, ... It's nonviolent; there's no killing. (Jessica Alba) [willpower/tolerance/cities/think]
• And even within cities you have different dynamics in each asset class. (Jason Lee) [cities/asset/class]
• We're in the midst of putting together a strategic partnership on the retail side. And for office, we're looking at sub markets of Tokyo and other cities with good demographics. (Jason Lee) [office/cities]
• [Bloom experienced some of his character's emotions while exploring America's heartland.] I've been to big cities of America, but I never really understood what they meant when they said the Heartland of America, ... Making this movie and going to locations like Oklahoma City, Memphis, and standing on a beautiful bridge over a river in Arkansas was like, wow. (Orlando Bloom) [cities/america/america/movie]
• It'll cost you a $1 a year to use the name God's Party, and they've started God's party in different cities where a lot of youth are coming and celebrating God's love. (Dyan Cannon) [cities/youth/love]
• We are going to start God parties in other cities. People don't usually equate God with a party! It is usually very solemn. (Dyan Cannon) [start/god/cities/people]
• “The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.” (Nancy Travis) [thing/care/cities/people]
• The most effective way to ensure the delivery of humanitarian supplies will be as the allied forces move forward, secure their objectives, secure the cities, restore calm, security and peace to the various parts of the Iraqi nation, (John Negroponte) [willpower/cities/calm/security]
• So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities. (Stokely Carmichael) [power/student/cities]

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