New York Quotes

Since the Puffy Combs case in New York, I will not try any more criminal cases

Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow.

My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers calm their frightened children by telling them it's just gunfire.

I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot.

I love New York. It's kind of perfect. I'm in New York part of the time and in L.A. part of the time. That's always been a goal, to be bicoastal in a real way.

As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured. —New York, Sept. 26, 2007

The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

New York is still where I live most of the time.

I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.

As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.

When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.

The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.

I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.

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.

The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

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.

There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.

I'm proud to be a New York Yankee.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

Helen of Troy, a hooker from Upstate New York. Never got a dinner!

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.

But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you.

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.

I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

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

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

That's the great thing about New York, there's always something to do.

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

I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A.

And when I have lived elsewhere, every two weeks I have to fly back to LA. Even New York directors go there to audition. So I have to be there to a degree.