Quotes for All
There are areas using what’s called the checkerboard strategy. They are different cities where you can move around the checkerboard, doing things you can’t do in every square, that you can do in some of them, building a mosaic of these kinds of practices. There are about 400 cable television networks, for example, that are … Read more
In America, we need to develop communitywide structures of democratic ownership, we need to work out cooperative development, we need to work out participatory management, we need new ecological strategies developed at the local city, state, regional level. Gar Alperovitz
Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in the city during the week seemed chaotic and unrelated to the events in my mountain world. Galen Rowell
It’s totally different now, traveling to different meets and different cities and actually being able to enjoy the cities I’m in. Gail Devers
It is more a mentality than the actual places people live, as Jefferson and Hamilton would argue about – city versus country. For example, someone could have an empty place mentality yet be living in a condo in Boca Raton. Gail Collins
There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn’t drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don’t think there’s any question that New York City’s very tough laws have reduced violence. Gail Collins
To be tempted and indulged by the city’s most brilliant chefs. It’s the dream of every one of us in love with food. Gael Greene
We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It’s really original. It’s called Ambulante, and it’s a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico. Gael Garcia Bernal
One thing I loved about New Zealand was the indoor/outdoor lifestyle of the place. I remember going from Xboxing, jamming out on guitars and drum machines in my buddy’s apartment, to a bike ride through the parks and up and down the streets all over the city, to the ocean, right into the water. I … Read more
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and … Read more