Urban Metropolis Quotes

L.A. is very big and very nice city.

New York is the last true city.

Hong Kong is a wonderful city.

I call New York just a bigger version of Toronto.

There was a moment with 'Zootopia' where we said, 'This is the experiment: let's try Judy in the role of the protagonist. Let her character introduce us to the city and this world.' And suddenly, all that struggling and trying to make traction into this story was done.

If you didn’t believe it before — and it’s easy to understand how you might have been sceptical on this point — if you didn’t believe it before, you can absolutely believe it now: New York City is the greatest city in the world.

Toronto is like a smaller, safe New York.

Shanghai is Asia's New York.

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

London is the greatest city in the world.

When I was writing about Gotham in 'Broken City,' I was writing about Chicago. I just substituted the names.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.

Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.

London is great, but New York is the greatest city in the world.

He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.

New York City is the greatest city on the planet. It's the capital of the world.

London, thou art the flower of cities all!

No other American city is so intensely American as New York.

I enjoy Chicago as one of the great American cities. When I come here and take a taxi from the airport, I meet a young man from Somalia. I meet a young man from Eritrea who engages with this nation with a sense of hope and a sense of desire. But we also we know that there are other elements of this nation that are toxic.

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry that has been cut up and carved away. It says, 'This is the ultimate polis, through which humans move like nematodes.'