Kate Williams Quotes

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

I live not too far from it in New York City.

I grew up in New York.

If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

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.

I live in L.A., I grew up here, it's not that crazy for me because it's L.A., you know?

In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.

I love living downtown.

I have the same sense of discovery and exhilaration from objects of design and everyday use - I am inspired by the buildings in my city, by park greenery and dazzling store windows, by the jaunty strollers and umbrellas and billboards I walk past. Just strolling our streets, we encounter creativity every single day.

Believe it or not, the sky is blue here in Glasgow. I absolutely love it here.

I go down the street thinking, 'Oh my God, I live in New York.' But then I think, 'Oh my God, I'm on Broadway!'

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.

I wonder what it's like to live in Tinaville. I get the feeling it's very shiny there.

Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they going? What were they looking for? I wanted to hear their heartbeats, and I wanted them to hear mine.

To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.

This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines -- to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.

I like any big city. I like any place where you can see a guy with a pants-full of pooh fighting a ghost.

Summer had come to sit on New York's face.