I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
I love driving in the city at night.
I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.
I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.
Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.
When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.
Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican.
I noticed some time ago that neither of the candidates are quoting the founders. If they are, they're doing it so rarely that I haven't noticed, or enough to be negligible. Certainly, neither is invoking the image of [George] Washington at Valley Forge or the Shining City Upon a Hill. In addition to this being true for John McCain and Barack Obama, it was true for Hillary Clinton as well.
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.
The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. . . . Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble. . . that I, for one, never found them.
I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those concert halls, of all those countries. I did not know what it was like to direct a band. . . All I wanted was to be big, to be in show-business, and to travel. . . and that's what I've been doing all my life.
If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.
The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.
The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.
I don't think that you can dispose of the constructive and inventive things that America is doing - and say, "Oh we aren't doing anything anymore and we are living off of what the poor Chinese do. " It is more complicated than that. There is the example of Detroit which was once a very prosperous and diverse city. And look what happened when it just specialized on automobiles. Look at Manchester when it specialized in those dark satanic mills, when it specialized in textiles. It was supposed to be the city of the future.
I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.
Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.