CITY QUOTES

• Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• Everything in Abundance is a Waste of it, Everything in Scarcity is not cared about, and everything in quantity is not always used.
  ~ Palash Jain ~
• Humanity goes beyond the capacity of having an human body, it goes deep by its fundamental ability to carry the act.
  ~ Perez Bulinda ~
• The difference between a tap and a slap is not just the velocity but the intention too.
  ~ Nwabugwu Chukwudumebi ~
• What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
  ~ Edmund Spenser ~
• To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
  ~ Dante Alighieri ~
• There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
  ~ Alexander Pope ~
• The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
  ~ Homer ~
• The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
  ~ Carl Sandburg ~
• On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
  ~ Bertolt Brecht ~
• Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
  ~ Aldous Huxley ~
• Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
  ~ Walter Savage Landor ~
• Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
  ~ Samuel Butler ~
• The true magic of Christmas lies in our capacity to give without expecting, to love without conditions.
  ~ Aloo Denish Obiero ~
• Authenticity is the anthem of self- discovery.
  ~ Aloo Denish Obiero ~
• For me, simplicity complicates everything, complexity complicates everything.
  ~ Shalom Kasim ~
• To be patient is to be building capacity in your making process
  ~ Effi David ~
• To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.
  ~ Eric Alterman ~
• Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
  ~ Jeff Bezos ~
• The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
  ~ Jeff Bezos ~
• American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.
  ~ Carrie Underwood ~
• There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
  ~ Miguel De Unamuno ~
• I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.
  ~ Brooke Burke ~
• I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during the first term when we stripped Libya and Iraq and A.Q. Khan and their capacity to proliferate nuclear technology.
  ~ Dick Cheney ~
• Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.
  ~ Robert Rodriguez ~
• I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
  ~ Angela Davis ~
• In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.
  ~ Rob Sheffield ~
• In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.
  ~ Rob Sheffield ~
• All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.
  ~ Mitch Daniels ~
• All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.
  ~ Mitch Daniels ~
• Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
  ~ Barbara Kingsolver ~
• First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.
  ~ Queen Elizabeth Ii ~
• You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'
  ~ Mira Nair ~
• You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'
  ~ Mira Nair ~
• New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it's weird.
  ~ Mira Nair ~
• Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
  ~ John Dewey ~
• Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
  ~ John Dewey ~
• Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
  ~ Jacob Bronowski ~
• Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
  ~ Jacob Bronowski ~
• Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.
  ~ Madonna Ciccone ~
• The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
  ~ Maria Montessori ~
• I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.
  ~ Tom Felton ~
• I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.
  ~ Tom Felton ~
• Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
  ~ Alvin Toffler ~
• Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
  ~ Alvin Toffler ~
• In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.
  ~ Theodore Bikel ~
• What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
  ~ Freeman Dyson ~
• What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
  ~ Freeman Dyson ~
• What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
  ~ Freeman Dyson ~
• The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
  ~ Lewis Mumford ~
• 'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.
  ~ Bobby Flay ~
• There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
  ~ Toni Morrison ~
• No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
  ~ Adam Smith ~
• You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'
  ~ Benjamin Netanyahu ~
• Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
  ~ Peace Pilgrim ~
• Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
  ~ Peace Pilgrim ~
• I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.
  ~ Gail Simmons ~
• And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.
  ~ Dan Lipinski ~
• Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
  ~ Adam Lambert ~
• No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
  ~ Cyril Connolly ~
• I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
  ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
• I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
  ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
• My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.
  ~ Dan Savage ~
• A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
  ~ Dan Savage ~
• I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.
  ~ Dan Savage ~
• My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.
  ~ Dan Savage ~
• Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
  ~ Lily Tomlin ~
• Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.
  ~ Jarvis Cocker ~
• I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.
  ~ Jarvis Cocker ~
• Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.
  ~ Jarvis Cocker ~
• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
  ~ Gore Vidal ~
• When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.
  ~ Larry Hagman ~
• My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.
  ~ Lindsay Lohan ~
• My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.
  ~ Lindsay Lohan ~
• My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.
  ~ Lindsay Lohan ~
• Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
  ~ Doug Larson ~
• Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
  ~ Doug Larson ~
• The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
  ~ Andrew Carnegie ~
• My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.
  ~ Jaron Lanier ~
• A man can be drawn across the room with the simplicity of a smile. That's why your pearly whites should always be straight and shiny. I think most of my clients are drawn to a fun, flirty nature in a woman. The problem is, most women do not often feel fun and flirty.
  ~ Patti Stanger ~
• Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.
  ~ Patti Stanger ~
• We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
  ~ Mignon Mclaughlin ~
• The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.
  ~ Jonathan Kozol ~
• The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.
  ~ Jonathan Kozol ~
• In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.
  ~ Jane Smiley ~
• If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
  ~ Karl Von Clausewitz ~
• Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.
  ~ Christopher Meloni ~
• Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.
  ~ Christopher Meloni ~
• Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
  ~ Donald Rumsfeld ~
• Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
  ~ David Mamet ~
• One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'
  ~ David Mamet ~
• My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City?
  ~ Henny Youngman ~
• I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
  ~ Dolly Parton ~
• Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
  ~ Marquis De Sade ~