New York City Quotes
New York City Quote of the day
On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.
I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.
I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.
I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.
New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something
No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.
Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?
True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.
Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.
If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.
My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.
The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.
I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .
You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.
New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.
A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.
Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?
When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.
The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks... And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list.
There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.
No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.
I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.
New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.
Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.
In Islamic theology, the phallic symbol is very important. Your biggest phallic symbol is New York City and your tallest building will be the phallic symbol they will hit.
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.