New York Quotes

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

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.

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 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.

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

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.

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.

The much heaves and palpitates. It is multidirectional and has a mayor.

Tip to out-of-town visitors. If you buy something here in New York and you want to have it shipped home, be suspicious if the clerk tells you they don't need your name and address.

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.

After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance.

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

The New York State Freeway's closed, man. Far out!

I'm in a New York state of mind

In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.

I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.

New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.

New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.

I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.

I just like to walk around New York, just put my iPod on and walk around.

It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.

Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.

The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.

I love New York City; I've got a gun.

When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.

Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!

We decide to start with the best-known sight of all, the one that, more than any other, exemplifies what the Big Apple is all about: the Islip Garbage Barge.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.

In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action.

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours.

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.

If you've ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you'll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.

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.

I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.