All Quotes

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.
‐‐ Herb Caen

A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.
‐‐ Jaime Lerner

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.
‐‐ Herb Caen

A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.
‐‐ Herb Caen

A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake of all these experiences and never say hello to anyone new. And one of the things that all religions do is take groups of strangers into a space and say it is OK to talk to each other.
‐‐ Alain de Botton

A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.
‐‐ Gregory David Roberts

A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.
‐‐ Geoffrey West

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
‐‐ Arnold J. Toynbee

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
‐‐ Kenneth Tynan

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
‐‐ A. J. Liebling

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
‐‐ Eugene Ionesco

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.
‐‐ John L. Phillips

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
‐‐ Sigmund Freud

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
‐‐ Thor Heyerdahl

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
‐‐ Robert Frost

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
‐‐ Friedrich August von Hayek

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

A classic man is a distinguished man. He cares about taste and his craft. He's all about the simple model that I live by - eat, drink, be swanky, and have fun getting the job done. He makes sure that he's excellent in all things and that he cares about his neighborhood immensely.
‐‐ Jidenna

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
‐‐ Elizabeth I

A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.
‐‐ Meriwether Lewis

A clear conscience is a sure card.
‐‐ John Lyly

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
‐‐ Steven Wright

A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.
‐‐ Janet Yellen

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
‐‐ Vernon Howard

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
‐‐ A. A. Milne

A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
‐‐ Percy Ross

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
‐‐ Arthur Conan Doyle

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
‐‐ Patrick MacGill

A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.
‐‐ James D. Watson

A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
‐‐ Anthony Holden

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger

A close friend of mine, Annie Leibovitz, who I've known for forty years, photographs celebrities every single day of the week but they all seem to look the same even though she's one of the most creative photographers alive. They all just look the same. Brad Pitt is a great actor but all the pictures of Brad Pitt look the same.
‐‐ Lawrence Schiller

A close girlfriend of mine and I have been writing and playing together for years and decided to make it official, so we formed a band called 'Everly.'
‐‐ Bethany Joy Lenz

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

A closed mind is a dying mind.
‐‐ Edna Ferber

A closed mouth catches no flies.
‐‐ Miguel de Cervantes

A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.
‐‐ Hamdi Ulukaya

A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world.
‐‐ Paul Lynde

A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.
‐‐ Doug Collins

A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.
‐‐ Peter Ueberroth

A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
‐‐ Benoit Mandelbrot