New York City Quotes

It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.

New York: A third-rate Babylon.

New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.

If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.

The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger.

Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.

Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.

Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates.

I had always been warned that American didn't always get sarcasm

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

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.

Even if you live in New York City, you can have a little basil plant in your window, and that could be considered urban farming.

I do characters. I believe in that. I think people are interesting. Now, everybody that you meet in New York City thinks that their life is a movie.

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.

I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City.

When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!

New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.

My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.

I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

I got a call from an agent to come to New York City, and write for the 'Ford Star Revue.' Because at the time there wasn't much 'national television'.

I don't tan in New York City. I don't want to waste it on that. I'll do my own fake tan, actually. It's awesome.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.

My problem with being in New York City is that you really can't make a living as a comedian. You can, but you have to also take writing jobs, which means less stage time.

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

I got some good news earlier today before the show. Thanks to Alex Rodriguez, I am no longer the most overpaid disappointment in New York City.