182 quotes found
“Sometimes work was just what you clocked into while you were falling in love. Sometimes sex was just something you did while you weren't at work. Drugs were something you did sometimes when you cou...”
“Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. Theres an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, whats left is terror. This is th...”
“Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life.And so we readers walk, an...”
“Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.”
“You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean.”
“I woke up feeling alone, so lonely. The night before, I had cried myself to sleep. I lay there on the floor, listening to the tube trains passing beneath me. I thought, All those hundreds and thous...”
“...Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
“I'm the girl who's desperate to get out of her small town because if she doesn't she knows she'll die. She knows her soul will start to rot, like fruit gone bad.”
“Libraries, museums, universities, everything we designed and built over six thousand years. Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel...”
“We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and...”
“what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually as he advanced on his journey, because the traveller's past changes acc...”
“Journeys to relive your past?' was the Khan's question at this point, a question which could also have been formulated: 'Journeys to recover your future?'And Marco's answer was: 'Elsewhere is a neg...”
“I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.”
“A CITY IS AS much a state of mind as a placea set of perceptions of place. On the last train home to Mullaghbrack or Gortyfarnham or half a hundred other BallyBogMans, two farmers fall to reviewing...”
“Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.”
“Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what's right in front of us, but will likely arouse our desire to compare our narrative to someone else's, to give ourselves permis...”
“Lying flat on my back, with my toes dipped into the lake, I stared at the stars for a second. I guess I should have pondered their beauty and realized the rarity of a sky unsaturated by city lights...”
“Let the romantic minds meet the romantic cities and after that the candle of romanticism shines on earth like a sun!”
“But there, war does not care for predetermination; it also destroys in fury that wich is immaterial, the hopes and expectations (from Requiem for a Hotel /Nekrolog auf ein Hotel,1918)”
“You can't love a city if you have no memories burried there.”
