Downtown City Quotes

#1. There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything.

Jan Morris

#2. You know, sometimes I think this is just not it," he said, his glasses flashing from the early night's light.
He turned toward me in a thoughtful pause.
"You know what I mean, Tom?" he asked. "It's just not.

Daniel Amory

#3. From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant I could not access, to the beautifully accessible buses in New York City, I was in heaven.

Stella Young

#4. I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.

Jordin Sparks

#5. This is so funny," said Ellen, noticing the seating arrangement. "Isn't this funny? Tom, come sit next to Robin. Griffin, sit next to Laura."
I stood up and sat next to Robin while Griffin brought his chair over to Laura.
"That's better," said Ellen. "Isn't that better?

Daniel Amory

#6. Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything
certainly not one with much downtown diversity.

Jane Jacobs

#7. There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true.

Daniel Amory

#8. I love downtown Seattle. It's a city that has all of the outdoor activities and is still a very cosmopolitan city.

Greg LeMond

#9. I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.

James Van Der Beek

#10. A life I didn't choose
chose me: even
my tools are the wrong ones
for what I have to do.

Adrienne Rich

#11. The spirit of democracy ... requires change of the heart ... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Fear in the absence of knowledge breeds irrationality.

We should always seek knowledge, even in the face of fear.

Biz Stone

#13. Really, nobody was there?" I asked.
"Well, nobody important," he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.

Daniel Amory

#14. By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.

Jason Epstein

#15. Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

Meg White

#16. That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street's burn.

Daniel Amory

#17. One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. 'What's the point?' he said. 'Kids aren't getting jobs.' You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.

Daniel Amory

#18. Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood ... They are not movies, then, nor are they talkies, but they are quite distinctly feelies.

Sheila Kaye-Smith

#19. The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy of youth.

Daniel Amory

#20. I have never lived in New York City, but a lot of people think that I am a New Yorker, because I was embraced by the Downtown scene since the 1980s. For the record I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.

Vaginal Davis

#21. San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.

Gavin Newsom

#22. I've officially turned into a loser," she whispered cynically. "I'm looking forward to going home and having cereal for dinner and walking Mitchell and studying a little and then going to sleep. I've had my 'going out and having fun' quota for the year, I guess, and it's June.

Daniel Amory

#23. [A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.

Peter Medawar

#24. That's one of the things about being married to a couple of musicians, I have got great iPods. That's what I was left with
an iPod each.

Pamela Anderson

#25. I don't think I've ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don't think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend."
"How would you introduce her?" I asked.
"I'm just going to say her name," he said.

Daniel Amory

#26. Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you.

Robert Reich

#27. Don't you think most of those kids think too much about who got an A or a B when they were in law school and what that means to an inflated G.P.A. and not enough about the world? asked Connor irrelevantly.

Daniel Amory

#28. But there is so much more to do for the city we love ... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

Laura Miller

#29. Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.

Michael Imperioli

#30. Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.

Billie Whitelaw

#31. My style has changed and evolved mainly because I've grown to have more confidence in myself.

Kevin Durant

#32. I think when it comes to women who write or who fancy ourselves 'hip downtown literati', there is a certain contempt for being overly sexual or really looking for boyfriends. We tend to be marginalized as some 'Sex & The City' Carrie Bradshaw chick-lit dummies who just want shoes and a ring.

Julie Klausner

#33. All my best friends live downtown in New York City. I was made in Soho.

Joakim Noah