#city

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

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so. ↗

— Athanasius

#anyone #approximation #city #clear #country

I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to deal with some of the challenges that might not have seemed as great 10 years ago, such as H.I.V., AIDS and children affected by war. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#ago #aids #came #capacity #challenges

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. ↗

— David Blaine

#capacity #each #imposed #minds #only

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#city #go #grew #holiday #i