Dario Argento Quotes

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

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.

Cities are about juxtaposition.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

I don't care much for the cities.

Cities are immortal.

Cities are created by and for traffic.

Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.

The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City.

I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.

The streets of New York are entirely man-made and unmistakably that, so you feel as though you're on some sort of presentation platform whenever you're out on the streets.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

I love cities.

I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring.

There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

I've always been drawn to city skylines.

You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.