New York City Quotes

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

What I don't want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik in New York City.

It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.

CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.

The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.

It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress.

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.

I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.

On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the cold clear light.

In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.

I walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.

I come from a place where you have a lot of sky. But [in New York City] you have to really look up to realize that there is eventually sky, somewhere. ...Sky is not a common commodity.

No matter how many times I visit New York City, I am always struck by the same thing - a yellow taxicab.

'25th Hour,' like a lot of my films, takes place in New York City. I've been very fortunate to make films in the city that I live. I mean, it's great going home at night instead of being on location.

Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night. Its like musical chairs except everybody sat down around 1964.

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am.

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler

In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

It's probably similar to being in New York City and having a cab driver behind you and you're driving too slow. It's not the most pleasant thing.

Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.

Ebola has arrived in New York City. And I say, 'if it can make it there...it can make it anywhere!'

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City

In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing.

Unusual weather for New York City. Today it was 68 and foggy. No, wait a minute, that's me. I'm sorry, that's me.

There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.

I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an actor - I feel like Mary Tyler Moore throwing her friggin' hat in the air.