Anita Loos Quotes

I fell for a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.

Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love watching the life of the town play out. You know, the rise and fall of individual lives in the entire community is just fascinating to me.

Colleges and universities divide families by income, providing access to the best schools for those with accumulated wealth. Low- or moderate-income families are relegated to the less prestigious schools where the resources for advancement are fewer than those provided at better financed schools.

Cities are like a bee hive. There is a hum to them. You can tell what is going on in the city from the hum.

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

I love London - its where I'm born and bred - but New York just has such an energy when you're walking around, and if you act or you write and you act like I do, its just such a good town for you because people here like people who can do more than one thing.

Citizens are the energy of Seoul.

Urban living is an intersection of business and personal life.

Where I'm staying, near Lafayette Street, Bowery, and Houston, you get different people with different spirits, and that's what I like.

I don't really care much about what the top one per cent earn. The gap we ought to care about in wealth is between the middle and the bottom.

I grew up working class in Atlanta.

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.

Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians.

I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.

Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.

I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's great heart, And share its hopes, its pleasures, and its pain.

Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.

I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.

I always feel like I am on the dark side of the tracks. I feel I'm no good. I can't read.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.