Anne Rice Quotes

I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.

It is the vibe of a city that makes it unique.

I am a different person in NYC. My energy is way different. I just make sense here.

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.

I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a city that perfectly captures the best and the worst of America. Imagine the truly American city, because that's what it is.

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

The only city people are those born so.

New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities.

Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!

I can't stand it when restaurants don't have a sense of place in a city. When I'm in London, I want to know I'm in London. When you're sitting in my joint, you know you're sitting in Seattle.

New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.

There's something about Brooklyn that reminds me of Toronto. I think because it's so community-minded.

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.

Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.

I am definitely a west London girl.

New York City has always had more in common with Paris or London than with Cincinnati.

I grew up with Woody Allen and early Spike Lee movies in which New York was such a specific character. The city has a certain vibe and beat which really informs your entire existence.

My biggest influence is my city. There's so much there. We have our own lingo, food, music and culture.

I like it when I go to a city and it puts its personality out there to be readily experienced.

I'm obsessed with New York. I just find it so remarkable. You really treasure this city when you go to different countries and you see that there is no mix. When you get back to the city, it's such an exciting place.

People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.

The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime and the violence and the little shocks of good that crawled out from underneath the everyday.

The Spirit of Cities presents a new approach to the study of cities in which the focus is placed on a city's defining ethos or values. The style of the book is attractively conversational and even autobiographical, and far from current social science positivism. For a lover of cities--and perhaps even for one who is not--The Spirit of Cities is consistently good reading.