Janine di Giovanni Quotes

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.

What the Olympics and other mega-events have shown is that the significant investment required to host an international games successfully has the power to transform a region, and even a nation.

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.

I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.

I could never dream of being cool.

I like to think that the Grand Prix helped Long Beach to pretty much change its image.

I don't believe you can buy or sell 'cool.'

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living.

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

[Political] Convention cities lie defenseless ... exposing their throats to the first impressions, superficial observations and random episodes that occur to four-day visitors who spend most of their time in taxi-cabs, hotel lobbies and convention halls.

The tourists who come to our island take in the Monarchy along with feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square.

You need to build a place that is a touristic destination that brings in people from outside the region.

I want Baltimore to be the coolest city in the world.

Astana is a government city, not a tourist city, but all you do is tour it. You tour it in the cab from the airport, passing the gleaming new English-language Nazarbayev University and then the new soccer stadium, speed-skating track, and ten-thousand-seat velodrome.

If we're deciding about merch pieces, t-shirts or hats, they have to be well designed and cool enough for somebody to want to buy it and then wear it and walk around advertising me and my music.

My husband is in branding. He brands places - cities, institutions.

We are the most visited city in the world - and they're not coming for the weather. Culture is one of things that's made London hugely successful.

I don't really know too many designers. I like a lot of what Kanye West has done with Yeezy, but I think it's a bit too, how you say, elevated; it's a little bit too special. Like he's trying to make something that's kind of a little bit too cool sometimes.

I have spent a lot of time out in Australia, and so I have a good little fan base out there.