Quotes About Metropolises

#1. People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.

Eddi Reader

#2. All metropolises have one thing in common: they are made up of a crowd of lonely people

S.E. Sever

#3. Have you ever wondered why in the last century all the great metropolises hastened to build subways?" "To solve traffic problems?" "Before there were automobiles, when there were only horse-drawn carriages? From

Umberto Eco

#4. And then there are the subway readers of difficult books. I like to imagine that New Yorkers are more literate than the riders of other American metropolises.

Sari Botton

#5. You have to be 100% sure [about brexit] because there's no going back on Friday morning and your decision could cost someone else their job.

Ruth Davidson

#6. We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

Bradley Whitford

#7. To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior force.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#8. I don't own anything designer.

Grimes

#9. My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.

Elie Wiesel

#10. I felt the smile grow from within, starting in my chest and making its way up to my face. If what the guru had said about auras and energy was accurate, I must have been glowing.

Brownell Landrum

#11. We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes both our insight and protection as a writers. This is our authority as women, as human beings.

Terry Tempest Williams

#12. Apart from being Jennifer Lewis. The name pulls people in.

Jenifer Lewis

#13. That's what you realized when you got older. When you were little, you thought you were just too young to understand the answers and that when you got older things would come into focus. Then you had to finally face the truth: There were no answers.

Anne Frasier

#14. I remember when I was in the Middle East, Yasser Arafat used to go to Bahrain and Qatar on a Thursday and then go to Saudi Arabia and get his financial help on a Saturday.

Leon Charney

#15. Dog is God spelled backward.

Duane Chapman

#16. A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

W. H. Auden

#17. Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Coolio

#18. Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes.

Herb Alpert

#19. Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.

Peter Jackson