329 quotes found
“@K11, Urban farming; Its something nice and warm for families and kids, but also references elements of the city. Urban Farming is very important for Shanghainese people because the city has lost i...”
“A city finds its life through the humans who inhabit it. When they go, what is truly left? Just silent stones, witnesses to the history but mute in its telling, remaining thus while slowly turning ...”
“Who said Hong Kong too small? In size perhaps but not in it`s soul and personality. Every corner in this city giving you full of surprises, if not every hour but at least every day.”
“For a city to be beautiful, it must have a mysterious air!”
“my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City. (The Art of Fiction, No. 68. The Paris Review, No. 82, Winter 1981.)”
“A city full of art is a city full of wit!”
“In photographs taken from the sky, cities resembled circuit boards. It was no surprise, really, that there were sparky misfirings, dangerous connections. Even traffic, Alice concluded, set up a kin...”
“New York had saved him, in a very real way. It had pushed and prodded him with its impatient and sharp fingers, reminding him on a daily basis during that jittery first year that it didn't really g...”
“Vasco bought a bottle of vodka to celebrate and they drank it in the old sailors' graveyard in Mangrove South. This was where the funeral business had first put down its roots. Over the wall, betwe...”
“Three years in London had not changed Richard, although it had changed the way he perceived the city. Richard had originally imagined London as a gray city, even a black city, from pictures he had ...”
“An advanced city is not a place where the poor move about in cars, rather its where even the rich use public transportation”
“You can never make a city as clean as the nature itself. To do this, you must completely demolish the city and convert it into the pure nature.”
“I'm in love with New York. It matches my mood. I'm not overwhelmed. It is the suitable scene for my ever ever heightened life. I love the proportions, the amplitude, the brilliance, the polish, the...”
“The City is free of sinThe snow has given it absolution A man who slips A horse that fallsOh no, the city is in a nightgown”
“I belong here, I tell Toy. I'm hungry for every city block. Every brick building. Every crowded intersection. Electric. I feel brand new.”
“The brown book I carry says there is nothing stranger than to explore a city wholly different from all those one knows, since to do so is to explore a second and unsuspected self. I have found a th...”
“You know," he said, his voice making me feel cold in spite of the heat, "this city can get ahold of you and pull you back no matter how hard you try to climb out. Like a grave.”
“This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.”
“The ride had begun.The theatre and club spectaculars seemed to stick up into the sky at all sorts of crazy angles, probably because most of them were planted diagonally on rooftops. Follow Thru, Wh...”
“Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.”
