#city

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel. ↗

— Gay Talese

#alive #am #america #character #city

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested. ↗

— Jeffrey Tambor

#about #actor #around #arrested #being

Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#brightest #building #city #codes #come

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. ↗

— Edward Teller

#everything #main #main purpose #more #purpose

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#chicago #city #corrupt #most

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#desire #elsewhere #get #go #i

There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#city #different #different kinds #exposed #fast

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#city #washington

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. ↗

— George Ade

#country #entertainment #form #funeral #interruption

Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of. ↗

— Ivan Allen

#atlanta #city #greatest #greatest city #i