Joan Lingard Quotes

New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.

There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.

Kansas City, well, part of the town's pretty cool, and part of the town is not. But it's gonna be that way no matter where you go.

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.

New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that's beautiful.

Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

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

That New York energy, when you've got the benefit of great weather, it really is terrific. You look up at that skyline, and the Empire State Building is literally in your eyesight - there's nothing like that.

For me, God's country is sirens and subways and all kinds of ethnic groups trying to cross the street all at once.

Westminster is a piece of this city's energy, something the contemporary world has forgotten.

When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.

...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night.

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

I've always been drawn to city skylines.

I can't get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths and parks in the middle of the city.

I never really thought of my neighborhood in South Philly as being a neighborhood; it was more a state of mind. For people who aren't familiar with those kinds of places, it's a whole different thing. Like, 42nd Street in New York City is a state of mind.

The culture of New York is just impossible to replicate. It's such an incredible feeling to be walking on the streets of New York. You can literally find everything you need in a five block radius oftentimes.

Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it.

New York is the great stone desert.

In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.

Rio's a beautiful city, a vibrant place, special place.