182 quotes found
“The grandeur of the thieving falsity is larceny, the fall of cities.”
“There are more hidden spaces in a city, more hidden lives and hidden emptinesses, and more darkened windows where shadow people pass fleetingly in and out of sight.”
“All around us, Karachi kept moving”
“...cities are murky places - hatching grounds for monsters...”
“For when man is faced with a curse he answers, "I'll take care of my problems." And he puts everything to work to become powerful, to keep the curse from having its effects. He creates the arts and...”
“There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations.”
“Of course, no government official will ever tell you that the cities may be making the people in them ill.”
“It wasnt Hell; only fools and drama queens throw that word around about a place like Gotham. It was worse, in a way, because it was manmade. There wasnt any timeless malevolence behind it all, it w...”
“Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.”
“Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life.”
“Some places will, however, be left behind. Not every city will succeed, because not every city has been adept at adapting to the age of information, in which ideas are the ultimate creator of wealth.”
“Our societies probably work best if they mimic as closely as possible the small-scale communities of our ancestors. We certainly did not evolve to live in cities with millions of people where we bu...”
“It all fell away then the control, the independence . . . everything. She had known it would never be easy to findsolitude . . . to find herself. Not in this city, where appearances were everythin...”
“When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.”
“The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at leas...”
“Mind you, Thunder Bay has a lot of outskirts. It's actually two cities melded together, so in a sense it has twice as many outskirts as other places. It's understandable that we got lost....”
“There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and stanbul is such a city!”
“There is, of course, a deep irony in the fact that technology, which was supposed to cut the ties between people and places and allow people everywhere to work from almost anywhere, turns out to fl...”
“Its hopeless, trying to recruit a stranger to help me find someone whos a stranger to him. But then again, we are all strangers to ourselves, caught up in the monotony of daily life, stuck in our r...”
“By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.”
