Anthony A. Williams Quotes

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's great heart, And share its hopes, its pleasures, and its pain.

I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.

L.A. is such a big city, and there's so much going on. I mean, you know you're in L.A. when you can just hear sirens all the time.

Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.

Good and bad make up a city.

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else

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Mumbai can be contagious. The pace of life is so fast that if I travel out of the city I am happy for a few days, but then I crave the Mumbai hit.

In New York, the drummers rush for a reason - because there's so much energy crackling through everything in that city and so many collisions at a highly accelerated rate.

You'll see every kind of New Yorker in there. You really feel like you're in the belly of the beast when you're in Union Square.

Cities are a melting pot for different ideas, and diversity brings a high-energy rhythm that I don't think we'd know was gone until it was too late.

The vibe, it's that excitement. New York, you just can't describe it. You get a similar thing from Paris and London, but it's not New York.

I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves until once more only the muted roar of the city is audible, and the city, bathed in sunlight, once again resumes dreaming its collective dream. Cars roll down the city's roads, plants grow from its soil, wealth is generated in its rooms, hope is created and lost and recreated in the minds and souls of its inhabitants, and the city continues its dream and searches for those ideas that will make it strong.

The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a city sky. The rush of city waters, beneath the city streets. The passionate passing of the night's last El.

Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.