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"Puck stopped his drumming [on his belly] for a brief moment and grinned at Sabrina. I hear they have a lot of plastic surgeons in New York City. If I were you I'd make an appointment for that face as soon as you get there," he quipped. Sabrina scowled and shook a fist at him. "Keep it up, stinkpot, and you're going to need a plastic surgeon yourself." Puck winked. "No need to get all mushy on me, Grimm."
"It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'"
"'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off."
"This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city."
"You probably know the name of Rosa Parks. You probably know that her refusal to move to the colored section in the back of a city bus sparked the Montgomery bus boycotts, one of the pivotal moments in the American civil rights movement."
"I am a musician, a songwriter, music fan. I live in New York City and I love my job."
"I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work."
"Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!"
"Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!"
"The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine."
"I always liked to go to Vancouver to shoot, because I think Vancouver's a beautiful city."
"I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal."
"The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one."
"My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting."
"The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five papers, I think. We were out all the time around the clock and every time we came across a really juicy murder or scandal or whatever, they'd send the big time reporters and photographers, otherwise they'd run our stories. So that's what I was doing, and I was going to university at the same time."
"I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief."
"It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march."
"As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!"
"Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it."
"I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities."
