City Quotes

I love that New York City is a true melting pot.

Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.

I just would like to spend more time in New York City.

You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.

I have this great fear of Mexico City. I won't go to Mexico City unless someone meets me at the airport and is with me. I just feel very vulnerable there.

I couldn't be more excited to return to the ING New York City Marathon.

People die when you crowd the streets of New York City with protesters. You can do plenty of protesting on the sidewalk.

People come to New York City because they want something different... now, people are just getting the sterilized version of that.

After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin City.

It was Night. In most places, Night is a time for sleep, for calm, and for mystery. But not in New York City, where many things conspired every evening to murder the night.

People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later, so let's be fair.

Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's disgusting.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

I've always been a very lucky guy. A lot of crazy things have happened in my career, but I guess the first big break was when I moved to Mexico City from Chihuahua.

I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.

You can stand on a stage in New York City and make very strong statements, but now everyone has to be held accountable equally.

I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.

Being in New York City is the best because I'm always walking, taking the subway and walking up and down the stairs - whether you like it or not, you're going to get exercise.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.

I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

I think that's why I like New York City because you can just put on your backpack and just explore; you never know where you are going to end up.

New York City is a place where you can lock yourself up in your little studio apartment, and not go outside at all, and not feel in the slightest guilty about it.

I bike all the time in New York City. I bike for hours. I can bike for eight hours a day and just go everywhere with bikes.

Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. / So I'm in love with / New York City.

There were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.

When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.

I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.

I really like Kansas City Royals stadium - Kauffman Stadium.

I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.

I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.

I don't need debt. And if I need debt, if I want debt, I can get it from banks in New York City very easily.

Apparently, the Obamas chose New York City because they've gotten so used to people trying to break into their house.

Today, Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed when he learned that a firehouse isn't a house where you get to fire people.

I'm more focused on the positives of why I'm here. I'll be able to address those things in due time. Right now it's about the Thunder and Oklahoma City.

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets.

I just love building buildings. I'm the largest developer in New York City. I'm having a lot of fun doing it. I think I've never had more fun. I'm just enjoying my life.

I'll tell you, it's Big Business. If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it's Big Business. Or two words – Big Business.

In New York City there are interesting characters and there are interesting stories. There's a story on every street corner. I love it. I think that's what really attracts me to making films.