2377 City Quotes for You to Enjoy

After 'Gangs,' people thought that I couldn't speak a sentence in English or that I don't wear jeans or, you know, I am a city girl. Huma Qureshi

You People Speak Thought Girl City Wear Know Am After Sentence English Jeans Gangs

The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on. Iain Sinclair

Future You Space Made Difficult Dig Else Project Once Negotiation Immediately Has-Been City Some Something Something Else More Economic Never Generate Idea Like Been Up Get Improvement Goes Next Reasons Starting Vague

I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A. Ian Gomez

Wife Met Bit City She Move Second Second City

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop. Ice T

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible. Ice T

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival. Ida B. Wells

Character Man Become White Dares Neither City Memphis Rival He Protect Himself His Nor Against Avail Standing

I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder. Idina Menzel

You Opportunity Try Looking Experiment Think Musical City Critics Over New Without Doing Want Shoulder Your Whole Things

I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me. Ilana Glazer

Me Broad City Write Connect

I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time. Ira Sachs

Time Gay AIDS Alive City Both Vaudeville New Involved Also Got Making Making Movies Came Up Very York Same Same Time New York New York City Lady Dying Movies Height Epidemic Shorts Act Including Started Two

My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight. Ira Sachs

During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies. Irvin D. Yalom

Life Library Black Made Bicycle Reading Trek Seventh Neighborhood City Segregated Week Hazardous Supplies Indoor Perilous Up Stock Often Refuge Childhood Central Midst Poor Washington Lived Twice Twice A Week Streets

The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its inception as a city. I'm always excited about the possibility of what might happen. That's what drives us, and I think that's the spirit of New Orleans and the spirit of jazz. Irvin Mayfield

Jazz Think Possibility City Spirit About Inspired Drives Excited Since New Because Around Always Still New Orleans Celebrations Happen Might Us Inception Reason Orleans

It's important to recognize how special New Orleans is. You play the snare drum or the clarinet in any other city, and you'd be considered a nerd, but here, there's no shame in it, and it's absolutely valued. Irvin Mayfield

My family has been rooted and intertwined with Jerusalem for generations, and I am among those who say every day, 'May You return to Your city, Jerusalem, with compassion.' Isaac Herzog

Guidebooks used to write the name of my city in two ways: Gjirokaster in Albanian, and Argyrokastron for foreigners. The classical-sounding name somehow gave it better credentials, because people in the Balkans famously exaggerate and often call their villages cities. Ismail Kadare

People Better Gave Ways Cities City Exaggerate Somehow Write Name Call Because Balkans Foreigners Often Used Villages Credentials Two

If I manage to write something that I consider good and valuable in a particular place, that spot automatically has a special aura for me. In Albania, there are two cities where I have written the majority of my work: Gjirokaster, my home city, and Tirana. Ismail Kadare

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. Italo Calvino

Will Every Cities City Born Variety Shape Catalogue New Come Until Exhaust Continue End Begins Endless Apart Forms Found

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. Italo Calvino

You Travel Lost Dust Differences Cloud Distances Cities City Exchange Takes Continents Order Form Places Realize Resembling Each Traveling

New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city. Italo Calvino

City Fabulous New York New York

The city of Atlanta has always had a good spirit. Ivan Allen

Good City Atlanta Spirit Had Always

New York City is a very tough place. I'm tough, too. When people give me a punch in the nose, I react by getting even tougher. Ivana Trump

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