Quotes by Cities To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It's forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there's a fair, a movie house, cotton candy. Alexander Theroux lonely real cities Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city. Alexander Woollcott seven los-angeles cities Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: "Is there no speed limit in this mad city?" Alexander Woollcott cities sight war Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune. Alexander Woollcott germany chicago cities If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres. Alexei Sayle cobblers charity cities I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city. Alexei Sayle cities house years The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise. Alexis Carrel dust cities dark In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be looked upon as large assemblies, of which all the inhabitants are members; their populace exercises a prodigious influence upon the magistrates, and frequently executes its own wishes without their intervention. Alexis de Tocqueville cities exercise men On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage. Alexis de Tocqueville cities perfect men Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes. Alfred Austin flower cities simple Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man. Alfred de Musset cities suffering men The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being. Alfred Doblin cities home men The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever. Alfred Lord Tennyson piano music cities I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this. Alfred Lord Tennyson cities bridges watches Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Alfred Lord Tennyson garden cities summer Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving the Volk and destroying the threads which bind humanity to Nature; they attract adventurers and profiteers of all colours, thereby fostering racial chaos. Alfred Rosenberg cities humanity today You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is. Alice Cooper yelling cities self So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see. Alice Cooper stage-performance cities play City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen. Alice Cooper cities new-york people You were out on tour, 75 cities in 80 days, and then making records on top of it. And they started calling us the Hollywood Vampires 'cause anybody only saw us at night. Alice Cooper vampire cities night «345678910111213»