New York City Quotes

And today is really the happiest day of your life, because today you woke up and stumbled across the shadow of your soul in broad daylight."From Central Park Song: a Screenplay

The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.

Well why don't you lean over this counter a little more and give me your best kiss, and then I'll tell you if I want you to take me out to dinner.

Hell isn’t fire and brimstone. It’s New York City.

Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.

People say that Paris is the city of love, but for Raia, New York deserves the title more. It's imposible not to fall in love with the city like it's almost impossible not to fall in love in the city

Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery.

These were the new girls of New York- complete with rapid heartbeats from too much nicotine and coffee. They were nervous and fluttery but completely alluring- the new face of urban femininity.

I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists]

We’re all a little broken, on the sidewalk. On the street. In the city.

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

People go to LA to "find themselves", they come to New York to become someone new.

...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

I once started outto walk around the worldbut ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

I mean it, " I said. "You're in danger.""Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.

Skyscraper National Park

New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand.

Guys like you can't escape the city. Hell, you a got a blood contract with this place. You're married to the old girl.

The safest day at the Melody is St. Paddy's, " adds another Mardi Gras girl. "All the cops are out vomiting at the parade.

Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark.

It's a city where everbody mutinies but no one deserts.

The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years.

people in new york are authorized by convention to snoop around and mentally measure and pass comment on any real estate they're invited to step into.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.

When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends : "What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to any who was lucky enough to be unable to read

New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillac's, and the beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.

The Empire State, a lonely dinosaur, rose sadly at midtown, highest tower, tallest mountain, longest road, King Kong's eyrie, meant to moor airships, alas.

No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the world.

There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.

It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.

I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified.

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American

The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.

I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City.

The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.

The Bronx? No Thonx!

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up

To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.

New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.

Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.

New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum's rush.

Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar.

New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center.

No matter how tired I was, I always felt more awake when I walked.

My new life was unstable and unsure, but each new day was shot through with new possibility.

New York City is the place where people come to invent, reinvent, or find the room they need to be who they wish to be.

I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts.

The city was radiant and I felt untouchable.

I never wrote him. I never saw him again. He was just gone, this dear, dear man, this friend of my soul in the hospital so long ago, disappeared. This is a New York story too.

I said, "It really didn't feel like a choice. Where else is there to go?