Quotes About Urban Beauty

#1. Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. I never saw true beauty till this night.

Lisa Kessler

#3. Don't be afraid," he said. "Art is full of agony and beauty. The pen itself a sword of pleasure and pain, isn't it, my poet?

Lisa Carlisle

#4. If everything is definite,
then men need no passion.

Toba Beta

#5. In a way the better the master;the worse the condition of slave,because it makes him forget what he is.

Amitav Ghosh

#6. Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.

Rebecca Solnit

#7. I didn't tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish and potholes to find a splinter of glass that looked like unmelting ice, beautiful in its defiance of the sun.

Kamila Shamsie

#8. For me, going home meant returning to the work of writing because writing was my home, because I loved writing more than I hated failing at writing, which is to say that I loved writing more than I loved my own ego, which is ultimately to say that I loved writing more than I loved myself.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.

Ada Yonath

#10. The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.

Stewart Udall

#11. Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

Ludwig Quidde

#12. Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.

Warren Littlefield

#13. I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

Jeannette Rankin

#14. 'Tammy,' the new movie starring, produced, and co-written by Melissa McCarthy, could be an artifact from some alternate universe: the creatures there resemble Earthlings but have an entirely different and debased idea of what's funny.

Richard Corliss