Samuel Johnson Quotes

Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.

I love New York. I love the people. I love the anonymity.

Good and bad make up a city.

The United States was born in the country and has moved to the city.

I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.

I'll show Luke I can fit into the city. I'll show him I can be a true New Yorker. I'll go the gym, and then I'll eat a bagel, and I'll ... shoot someone, maybe? Or maybe just the gym will be enough.

The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?

I love the city. I love the energy of New York and what happens here. But I'm very happy I don't live in the city on a daily basis, because I really do spend a great deal of my time, when I'm not on the road, in my studio - everyday, everyday, everyday.

I really like to have a coffee shop next door and be able to smoke a cigarette. I'm a city person; I regard nature as something hostile and problematic. I do enjoy it when I get out there, but it is mostly against my will. It's a bit of an awkward thing to say - people really don't like it when you say that.

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.

A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.

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

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city.

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

The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.

The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left.

Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.