Top 1200 City Of Glass Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

In a city of illusion, where change is what the city does, it's no wonder Las Vegas is the court of last resort, the last place to start over, to reinvent yourself in the same way that the city does, time after time. For some it works; for some it doesn't, but they keep coming and trying.

I think of Chicago as a great entrepreneur city, a city that supports its own, that isn't as jaded as New York and L.A.

My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games.

For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.

As a city, it is always compelling. But every day in Mexico City, I give thanks that I am alive.

For me, safety is a huge parameter for a city's progress. If your city is safe, it is progressing.

A city without passion is just a city of artistic events.

Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?

This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what to make of the sudden slippiness, The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant. There's no getting up it by the words you know. No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe. We have only come to look. You are too new To want the world in a glass hat.

Women are more accommodating. If a woman drinks the last glass of apple juice in the refrigerator, she'll make more apple juice. If a man drinks the last glass of apple juice, he'll just put back the empty container.

I opposed annexing in areas around our city borders, because I knew that if neighborhoods wanted to be a part of the city, well, they would mandate themselves in and invite themselves into a city. That's just one example of even on a local level how dangerous it is for a politician to start thinking they know more than that individual family, that individual business.

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

Chicago's a great city for filming. The city is so rich architecturally. I think that's part of what made 'Candyman' special.

I know the one-week stands and the moving from city to city wears a lot of people down. But I find it exciting that's where the audiences are.

And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.

For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.

This is a proud moment for our city. This is the first time we have won a Finals game in this city, and I'm happy to be part of the history.

I don't know if a lot of players can actually say they played in the All-Star Game in their actual city, their team's city.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

Buenos Aires is an incredibly kind of fragrant city, a beautiful city to look at, and it has the old and the new.

There are certain conceptual powers in this project, like the relationship of glass to sand, and the idea of putting glass back into the earth, which is where it comes from, which are related to the whole concept of I Am. So there's that one below-surface idea, and then there's these other practical and more pragmatic ideas about how the light functions and the geometry and mathematics behind the reverberation of light from the surface outward.

When you are in a different city, you must relish the local food and I always like to try the authentic taste and flavours of a city.

What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung there, without any addition, to operate immediately and directly. Even at the risk of being boring. Mere demonstration. The mirrors, and even more the Panes of Glass, were also certainly directed against Duchamp, against his Large Glass.

"What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?" "Two pence halfpenny," says the landlord, "is the price of the Genuine Stunning Ale." "Then," says I, producing the money, "just draw me a glass of the Genuine Stunning, if you please, with a good head on it."

If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I've seen in painting, and if I even think that the greatest architectural wonder of the world couldn't affect me more than this glass, it's really not worth while going to the Indies to see some temple or other when I have as much and more right in front of me.

The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.

A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.

The Long Island experience is so strange. You're a satellite around the city, so the presence of the city is always looming.

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

As Public Advocate for the City of New York, I have a duty to speak truth to power and do what is best for our City and its residents.

I am sure everyone here has noticed a city where they felt at home, or a city that had “bad vibes.”

It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city.

If you develop a technology that only works in a single city, where it's kind of optimized for a specific city, that's not really that exciting.

Dhaka the city of mosques has become the city of Hindu temples.

Banaras is a mystical city. It is not easy to know that city well.

First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council.

Alcohol is certainly one of the most abused drugs since ever and ever, since Dionysus. They say have a glass of wine at dinner, which was done in the Latin countries. In Italy we always had a glass of wine at dinner. It is a good thing. But if you have dozens of glasses of wine at dinner it is not so good.

Rudy Giuliani did some phenomenal things in the city if you think of the transformation of the city and the quality of life.

What’s going on?” Royce asked as throngs of people suddenly moved toward him from the field and the castle interior. “I mentioned that you saw the thing and now they want to know what it looks like,” Hadrian explained. “What did you think? They were coming to lynch you?” He shrugged. “What can I say? I’m a glass-half-empty kinda guy.” “Half empty?” Hadrian chuckled. “Was there ever any drink in that glass?

Manute Bol is so skinny they save money on road trips. They just fax him from city to city.

There's no reason to do 'ex and the City' if it's not going to be everything 'Sex and the City' is, which is vibrant emotions, comedy, drama... and also, style.

Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.

I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition as Manchester City.

Lucknow is a bustling city with warm, friendly people. 'Gulabo Sitabo' is the essence of this city.

The AAP government has turned Delhi into a city of potholes and has hurt the sentiments of people of the city.

I live in New York City. Since 1983, this is my home. It is my heart, it is my home, and it is the city that I love. I enjoy many places and many opportunities, but I absolutely adore New York City.

I come from Carol City. The city renamed it Miami Gardens.

There have been times that I've wept as I've gone from city to city and I've seen how far people have wandered from God.

A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley.

London is an incredible city. The people are very nice. It's a happy city with good Brazilian restaurants.

When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.

Napoli belongs to the city and to the fans. If this city sees the team reach the final, it will be a source of pride.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

The city of Madrid is a beautiful city, and my family loved living there.

New York is the center of the world. I grew up in Connecticut, outside of the city, and my father commuted to the city for work.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

When you go into a new city, or any city that you play for, the community is a big part of every organization.

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

I'm from New York City. I grew up in the city. Suburban life was very odd to me.

Imagine a smashed stained-glass window, a page torn from a Bible, or a snippet of choral singing. You would still recognize their religious roots, wouldn't you? In 1915, Coca-Cola designed a bottle so unique that if it were smashed into thousands of pieces, from a single shard of glass you'd still be able recognize the brand. We call such a device a Smashable. It can be anything from a color to a sound, from a pattern to a smell to an icon.