“It's very important for people to come back to the city and take a look and understand.”
C. Ray Nagin
“Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.”
Michelangelo
“We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.”
Robin Williams
“New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.”
David Letterman
“Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.”
Jean Baudrillard
“Think about it. If you are single, after graduation there isn't one occasion where people celebrate you. ... Hallmark doesn't make a "congratulations, you didn't marry the wrong guy" card. And where's the flatware for going on vacation alone?”
Sarah Jessica Parker
