Sara Sheridan Quotes

Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around.

I think one of the things the writers' festival does that is very good is that it brings writers from around the world and around the country and locally and puts them all in the one spot together, and that's what a lot of the world's great writers' festivals do.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

In Bangkok's budding literary scene, Prabda Yoon sits at the centre.

Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.

It is hard not to be inspired when you're living in New York. It doesn't matter what you do. I think that there is so much going on in this city. I like walking around or taking the subway, thinking about all the history here, looking at the architecture and all the people; of course, the museums. It's tough to find a better place to live.

I used to say Edinburgh was a beautiful actress with no talent. I thought it was just like a shortbread tin. I think that's because I did six Festivals in a row there, and I never saw the real Edinburgh, just a lot of deeply annoying Cambridge Footlights kids wanting to be actresses.

New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing.

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting.

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

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

I think everything belongs in a certain place, for kids who feel they don't belong anywhere. A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.

There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.

I don't want to be cliched, but Buckingham Palace is beautiful, and the old red telephone booths are really interesting to me. I've always wanted to see those.

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

Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.

Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.

It is for all these buildings, therefore, of all times and styles, that we plead, and call upon those who have to deal with them to put Protection in the place of Restoration, to stave off decay by daily care, to prop a perilous wall or mend a leaky roof by such means as are obviously meant for support or covering, and show no pretence of other art, and otherwise to resist all tampering with either the fabric or ornament of the building as it stands; if it has become inconvenient for its present use, to raise another building rather than alter or enlarge the old one; in fine to treat our ancient buildings as monuments of a bygone art, created by bygone manners, that modern art cannot meddle with without destroying.

You will find in the streets of New York every variety of architecture, just as you find in its libraries all the literatures of the world, and in its theatres all the music, and in its houses all the decorative arts.

It's pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you're in the capital of the world.

Go for a walk through Central Park and stop at the Met. It's the best way to get a feel for what makes New York so special.

I love just being at Lincoln Center - it's so New York! Those fountains!

We're very proud of our cultural life. Culture is to London what the sun is to Spain. It's a major driver for our tourism.

I was born in Glasgow and brought up in a place in between Glasgow and Edinburgh called West Lothian!