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“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland.”
― Tennessee Williams
“Mrs. Reilly called in that accent that occurs south of New Jersey only in New Orleans, that Hoboken near the Gulf of Mexico.”
“I hope to die in my sleep, when the time comes, and I hope it will be in the beautiful big brass bed in my New Orleans apartment, the bed which is associated with so much love.”
― Tennessee Williams
It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.
Mark Twain said, “New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.”
There are more whores and nuns in New Orleans than any city in the world.
“New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)”
"San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality." - Paul Kantner
"I was married once --- in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad." - W. C. Fields
"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities." - Cecil Beaton
"We're crazy about this city. First time we came here, we walked the streets all day, all over town and nobody hassled us... Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco." - John Lennon
"San Francisco has only one drawback. 'Tis hard to leave." - Rudyard Kipling
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco”
“The Basilica ranks as one of the great buildings in Western architecture. At the Baltimore Basilica, it is a newly visible and much more brilliant Latrobe whom we encounter and a newly knowable and much more precious edifice that we have in our care.”
“This guy couldn't shake Baltimore off him if he tried,”
David Simon
The Bermuda grass stock has risen. Everyone we talked to in Baltimore loved the grass and had not encountered any problems with it.”
“The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their ''Hub',' as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.”
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