329 quotes found
“When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city ?Do you huddle close together because you love each other?”What will you answer? “We all dwell togetherTo make money from each other”? or “...”
“...the/ supreme end-result of/ early Gothic phallic forms/ is the skyscraper & the/ oil drill & powered/ compressor & pistons of/ great engines...”
“At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a question which you must answer within your own heart.”
“Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent. Whereas other ...”
“If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone’s wallets.”
“Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.”
“The city defeated him. It refused to be bent into shape; it stayed a willful, sprawling, sinful place. It even told him as much. When he walked through the gutted wreck of old Saint Paul's, he trip...”
“Some big insect flew in and began walking on the table. I don’t know what insect it was, but it was brown, shining, and rich in structures. In the city the big universal chain of insects gets thin,...”
“When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.”
“A rhinestone skein, a jeweled brocade of light,–the city is a garment stretched so thinher festive colors bleed into the night.”
“It seemed to him he had waited an age for some stir of the great grim hush; the life of the town was itself under a spell--so unnaturally, up and down the whole prospect of known and rather ugly ob...”
“If you would know and not be known live in a city.”
“God made the country and man made the town.”
“Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.”
“Far from gay cities and the way of men.”
“We might define an eccentric as a man who is law unto himself and a crank as one who having determined what the law is insists on laying it down to others.”
“A great city a great solitude.”
“In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to ...”
“If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city.”
“Farmers worry only during the growing season but town people worry all the time.”
