New York Quotes

When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.

Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.

If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.

I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.

When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

I lowered taxes in New York. I reduced the size of government in New York. I took a $2.4 billion deficit and turned it into a $3.2 billion surplus. And I reduced taxes over 23 times or 23 times.

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'

I was in Taiwan recently and was completely amazed by the density of population. It makes New York look like no one is out on the streets.

I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.

Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough

Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

I think driving in New York is a great experience. A lot more racing techniques go into it than anyplace else I've ever driven. There basically are no lanes.

You haven't lived until you died in New York.

I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.

What is interesting, as well, is how much power homicide detectives have and how much respect. They are kind of rock stars, especially in New York. There are not that many of them.

Even ivory towers need central heating.

All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

A picture, of Jock Semple kissed me,appeared in The New York Times the next day after Boston Marathon in 1973, and the caption was "The end of an era."

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.

Krush Groove was a movie at the time. That was my first break. I just got to New York. I was right out of college and I was happy to have a job.

I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.

Everybody's in New York and, hopefully, my younger kids will go to college in New York and find something they want to do so they'll stay in the city

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110 percent every night.

I met Sable when she was 15 and I was 18. I sent her home to New York while we carried on the tour. When we got back the police were looking for her at the airport and everywhere!

When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment."

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

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

I don't care what the New York Times says about me, and no one I care about cares what the New York Times says about me.