Dave Haywood Quotes

For whatever reason I love big-city skylines. I've always been fascinated by them.

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.

Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

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.

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.

I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architecture, the old stuff and the new stuff.

Delhi is fabulous - the roads, greenery, the monuments!

I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, L.A... but, I do choose to live in Vancouver. It's home.

I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

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

Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

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

Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic.

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.

I love driving in the city at night.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

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.

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