Eva Marie Saint Quotes

Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.

The topography of L.A. is fascinating.

The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.

I grew up in the suburbs, so I remember arriving at Waterloo and seeing Big Ben and the coloured lights on top of the Southbank Centre and thinking, 'Wow!'

I grew up in New York.

The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure - than almost any other factor save topography.

I went to Niagara Falls with my family when I was young, and I cried because I thought it would be bigger.

A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?

Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.

But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.

Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

Every time I drive into Rio from the airport, I see the city for the first time and think how strange it is.

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

I always tell people there's some kind of wall that you have to break through to see the beauty of L.A. The first few times I came here, I was like, 'I don't know about this place.' Then one day, it just totally flipped for me. It was crazy.

'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.