Cities quotations

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◆ I decided to join Barcelona because it's a sunny place. They are building for the future and want to win titles, and they have the conditions to do it. And I wanted to go there because it is an honour to play in the shirt of a team who have had great

- Ronaldo99

◆ Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

- Walter Winchell98

◆ Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel

- Fran Lebowitz98

◆ Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

- Frank Lloyd Wright98

◆ The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

- Henry Miller98

◆ Cities are the abyss of the human species

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau98

◆ A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and errors.

- Charles Abrams98

◆ If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

- Peter Shaffer98

◆ If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi

- Andre Maurois98

◆ I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.

- Groucho Marx98

◆ I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

- Andy Warhol98

◆ When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

- Hugh Newell Jacobsen98

◆ The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

- George W Bush98

◆ All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

- Dr Carl Sagan98

◆ We didn't make the mistakes that many other cities did.

- Ivan Allen98