I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.
New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.
Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.
By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle. . . Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.
In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.
I'm a small-town guy, and moving to a huge city might be an adjustment.
Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L. A.
In the, uh, '30s and '40s, the Brill Building was the hub of, uh, musical activity in Tin Pan Alley in New York City. I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.
Mexico City is very different now than when I grew up, but I was in the streets all the time - though I was born to a middle-class neighborhood where there weren't a lot of gangs and things. I was always comfortable.
There are so many cities in every single city.
Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.
China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.
Los Angeles: A city I like because it's easy to tell who the strange people are.
I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness. . . whereto all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim.
She remembered timidly standing atop the Luthadel city wall, afraid to use her Allomancy to jump off, despite Kelsier's coaxing. Now she could step off a cliff and muse thoughtfully to herself on the way down.
E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.
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.