City Stereotypes Quotes

Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

Baltimore has been a punchline/punching bag for years - I've landed a few blows, to be fair - but those old jokes are out of touch.

Los Angeles is just New York lying down.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.

Everybody complains that people are so flaky in LA. I'd rather be flaky than mean.

I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.

If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady who mutters and has the second sight. She is slightly deaf, and doesn't suffer fools gladly.

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.

I love Los Angeles. I love when people make fun of it. I think, 'Good, don't come.' All the jokes about it feel out of date.

Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, 'Let's call Desmond,' and somebody else says, 'Why bother? He's probably home reading the Encyclopedia Britannica.'

That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.

I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.

There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.

I'm not crazy impressed with New York. I mean, I don't buy into that whole thing: Everyone in New York is all sophisticated, and they're into art and sophisticated things, and everyone in L.A. is just shallow entertainment people. I think people are just shallow across the board.

Just as London is not one endless afternoon tea, L.A. isn't all super-fit, health food-crazy freaks.

You know what they call a good looking girl in Philadelphia... a tourist.

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.

Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady

L.A. is so fake - girls there are so superficial.

People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.

You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?