Quotes About Living In The Big City

#1. When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. You fall in love with someone, and part of what you love about him are the differences between you; and then you get married and the differences start to drive you crazy.

Nora Ephron

#3. Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Socrates

#4. Taylor Swift is very strategic with her friends and enemies. And I know lots of secrets. I can't divulge, but I know a lot of stuff about her. And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.

Diplo

#5. He wore his personality like a suit that was too tight.

B.V. Lawson

#6. Oh, my faith has flagged at times. It's easy to fall back into the same routines and paint over the sublime with coat after coat of indifference ... I promise you something: when you have touched the face of God, you can never unlearn what you have learned. You can never unsee what you have seen.

Garth Stein

#7. To sit on the front steps - whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city - and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.

Harvey Milk

#8. You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

Arthur Ashe

#9. If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you'll feel, at the end of your life, that at least you took the shot.

George Saunders

#10. To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

Jean Genet

#11. I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'

Mariska Hargitay

#12. I'm probably half in love with a boy I don't really like.

Gwen Hayes

#13. I'm sorry Sandstorm" he murmured. "I never meant to hurt you" His voice barely more than a whisper, he added,"I love you."
Sandstorm's eyes glowed."I love you too,Fireheart.

Erin Hunter

#14. When I was growing up, I just wanted to be somewhere else. I didn't like living in Knockemstiff, and I figured when I got older, I'd move off to some big city.

Donald Ray Pollock

#15. I think that's just what happens when you write a big bestseller. After that you need to find out: What's the best way to go on? And the worst thing you could do would be to try to repeat the formula. That would be suffocating.

Daniel Kehlmann

#16. Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was so poor so I would take advantage of the free flight, the per diem, the hotel. And then I would go audition for stuff.

Dean Norris

#17. Sixteen vampires you took out yourself with nothing but a stake and your cleavage? Makes me ashamed of my kind, it does.

Jeaniene Frost

#18. This thing that I created, this thing I made as a woman, for other women, is worth something. It's worth exactly the same as what a similar thing, built by a man, for men, is worth.

Jennifer Weiner

#19. I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.

Nicolas Berggruen

#20. I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

Paula Cole

#21. Someday, I'll be living in a big ole' city, and all your ever gonna be is mean. Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me, and all you're gonna be is mean. Why you gotta be so mean...

Nicole Hite