Metropolis Quotes - Page 2

• San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry.

  Jack Kenny

  Cities, San Francisco, Size

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• London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

  Henry James

  London, Form, City Life

  Henry James (2016). “Henry James: Autobiographies: A Small Boy and Others / Notes of a Son and Brother / The Middle Years / Other Writings: Library of America #274”, p.992, Library of America

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• Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

  H. L. Mencken

  Nineteen, Los Angeles, Suburbs

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• This country belongs to all of us. We made this country from nothing, from mud-flats... Over 100 years ago, this was a mud-flat, swamp. Today, this is a modern city. Ten years from now, this will be a metropolis. Never fear!

  Sr. Lee

  País, Años, Ciudades

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• In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature.

  Ross Parmenter

  Air, Essentials, World

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• The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.

  John Kennedy Toole

  New Orleans, Hands, Despair

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.181, LSU Press

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• The capitalists of a country which manages to capture foreign markets from other countries are able to increase their profits at the expense of the capitalists of the other countries. Similarly, a colonial metropolis may achieve an export surplus through investment in its dependencies.

  Michal Kalecki

  País, Mayo, Capaz

  Michal Kalecki (1971). “Selected Essays on the Dynamics of the Capitalist Economy 1933-1970”, p.85, CUP Archive

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• But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?

  William Cobbett

  Silly, Fate, Monsters

  William Cobbett (2011). “Rural Rides (Two Volumes in One)”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.

  Phillip Lopate

  Party, Cities, Dinner

  Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.148, Basic Books

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• Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life. And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dream, Home, Doors

  Anna Quindlen (2006). “Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City”, p.160, National Geographic Books

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• She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.

  Nancy Price

  Life, Weed, Eye

  Nancy Price (1991). “Sleeping with the enemy”, Berkley Pub Group

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• What I'm nostalgic for is the idea of an edge in New York. There used to be these fringes of the city where civilization sort of ended, and therefore young people could live cheaply, or open nightclubs or art galleries, or even squat. That fringe moved out to New Jersey and Brooklyn. The whole idea of the metropolis is the centralization of like-minded souls, and when the central real estate becomes too expensive, the dreamers, the young poets, and the artists will go elsewhere.

  Jay McInerney

  Art, Real, People

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.

  William Hazlitt

  Breathing, Cities, Space

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.524

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• The Place of Religion in Chicago is a clearly written account of a little-studied aspect of American landscape. Based on unique field surveys and supported by photographs, tables, and beautifully crafted maps, the book will form a lasting contribution to our understanding of an overlooked element of the American urban scene: the religious landscape of a major metropolis.

  Peter Haggett

  Religioso, Libro, Único

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• Cuando llegué a conocer a fondo a los autores griegos y romanos, pensé que me correspondía hacer algo por el honor del lugar de mi nacimiento, y reivindicar la retórica de este antiguo foro de nuestra Metrópolis de las acusaciones de los analfabetos, componiendo un Tratado de la Alercación de los Antiguos, en el que he demostrado que la pureza, sinceridad y sencillez de su dicción no se conserva tan bien en ninguna parte como en mi vecindario.

  John Arbuthnot

  Simplicidad, Griego, Honor

  George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). "Vida y obras de John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians"

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• 'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Velvet, Firsts, Bombay

  "First Poster: Ranbir Kapoor is Johnny Balraj in Bombay Velvet" by Stacey Yount, bollyspice.com. January 29, 2015.

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• La Grid hace irrelevantes la historia de la arquitectura y todas las lecciones anteriores de urbanismo. Obliga a los constructores de Manhattan a desarrollar un nuevo sistema de valores formales, a inventar estrategias para distinguir una manzana de otra. La disciplina bidimensional de la cuadrícula también crea una libertad inimaginable para la anarquía tridimensional. La Grid define un nuevo equilibrio entre control y descontrol en el que la ciudad puede ser al mismo tiempo ordenada y fluida, una metrópolis de rígido caos.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Block, Cities, Two

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• The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis.

  John Quincy Adams

  Friendship, Ties, Together

  John Quincy Adams, Kenneth V. Jones, Estados Unidos. Presidente (1825-1829 : Adams) (1970). "John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; cronología, documentos, ayudas bibliográficas", Oceana Pubns

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• Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people.

  John Strachan

  Religious, Attachment, People

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• Nunca escribo "metrópolis" por siete céntimos cuando puedo escribir "ciudad" y me pagan lo mismo.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Cities, Seven

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• To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

  Tom Robbins

  People, Life And Change, Make Things Happen

  "Here in Geoduck Junction" by Tom Robbins, archive.seattleweekly.com. October 9, 2006.

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• Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Sleep, Air, Cities

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• The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their diocese enjoyed a free importation of vice and error from every province of the empire; the eager pursuit of religious controversy afforded a new occupation to the busy idleness of the metropolis: and we may credit the assertion of an intelligent observer, who describes, with some pleasantry, the effects of their loquacious zeal.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Religious, Intelligent

  Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.21, Modern Library

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• My first decade of living in a metropolis was like, I was a people watcher. It meant the world to me to talk to strangers. I got excited about the fifth time I'd see the same person in the same bodega. I loved getting to know a certain clerk or barista. It took on a whole big meaning for me because of that atomization that suburban people do start to feel.

  Debra Granik

  People, Clerks, World

  "Debra Granik habla del "porno de la pobreza", la autoestima y su nueva película, Stray Dog". Entrevista con Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. 11 th Of July de 2015.

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• A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name,
  Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame,
  A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb
  Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb;
  By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd,
  Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Names, Prison, Shame

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