Evelyn Waugh Quotes

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down

New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature, forced by the artificiality of their environment.

I'm a creature of the New York City streets.

You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.

I'm very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the way they behave in a natural environment.

I live in L.A., I grew up here, it's not that crazy for me because it's L.A., you know?

When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.

That's what I love about New York. So many people crowded together, pushing against one another. And that's what I hate about New York. So many people crowded together, pushing against one another.

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

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

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

I grew up in New York.

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.

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

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens blaring, construction sites going, people shouting and swearing at each other.