People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a. m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
New Singapore will be one of the world's finest, most liveable cities. Arts, theatres, museums, music and sports will flourish. Singapore will be a lively and exciting place. . Our city will not only have depth, but also the richness of diversity. But above all, Singapore will a home for Singaporeans.
I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.
The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.
We just moved out of L. A. because I didn't want to be raising my girls in the city. They're in public school now and they're in a normal situation. We're sort of settling into that. It's just a choice.
I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood. . . I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.
Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.
I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day.
Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
He’s body slammed enough people to start a new country. And there could be a neighbouring city for the people he’s punched in the throat
Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.
When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.
For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the world. Nothing now remained but heaps of rubble and a stench of decaying human flesh.
I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation.
Fortunately, I had cousins who lived in Buffalo and would often go to visit them, which I loved to do because I liked Buffalo as it was a big city. Even today, the bigger the city, the better.
Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
Cities are like gentlemen, they are born, not made. You are either a city, or you are not, size has nothing to do with it. I bet San Francisco was a city from the very first time it had a dozen settlers. New York is "Yokel", but San Francisco is "City at Heart".
Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.