Adrian Anthony Gill Quotes

At first, I didn't like coming down to Los Angeles at all. It's like, everything's black and white compared to where I live out in the middle of nowhere. There's, like, 400 people in my town!

I don't know much about cities. When I go places, I usually stay in the country.

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

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

I didn't want to go see mountainous areas as a kid - I wanted to be around town, around New York, around Connecticut.

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.

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

In N.Y. you're always around people, but in L.A. you can go days without seeing anyone.

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

I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles.

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.

Dublin dwindles so beautifully; there is no harsh separation between it and the country. It fades away, whereas London seems to devour the country; an army of buildings come and take away a beautiful park, and you never seem to get quite out of sight of a row of houses.

Charlotte, it's what somebody from New York or L.A. would say is a small town, but it isn't. It's right in between being a small town and a city. It's more of a city.

I love Chicago. I love the big city. But, remember, I come from a town, Lovington, N.M., that only has 8,000 people.

I remember, the first few years here, I didn't like London much: too big, too crowded, the physical difficulty of getting around.

Brussels is sort of a mini London in the sense that if you think about putting a football pitch in London, people laugh at you. There is just no space.

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.

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

I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have absolutely lost their own center. They think having ten cars and a big bridge is the way to happiness. It's not.

I live in the middle of nowhere. I'm a country bumpkin in Ireland, in Donegal, and to go from that to Toronto, huge city, massive buildings just stretching so tall.

Some restrictions should be imposed on population. First of all, each city should have certain population, certain limit.