New York Quotes
As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured. —New York, Sept. 26, 2007
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.
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.
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'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.
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.
Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow.
When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.
I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor.
I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.
No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
In New York and LA, there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something.
Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've got to go. So I went.
I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.
I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.
Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I'd like to find it one day... If I want to go out and have a good time, I go to New York.
I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.
There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads and the pictures were so vivid.
I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train.
If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere; it's up to you, New York, New York.
If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.
I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.
I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.
New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.
Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.
In New York, you can just wake up and everything sorts itself out. I love that, not having a plan.
It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.
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'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.
Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.
Do you know New York stifles me? It makes me so unhappy. There are so many things I want, and so many things I cannot afford to have. I don't see how people ever have money enough to live here.
Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.
My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.
New York, hands down. I don't want to be there in the winter, but even then it's an amazing place.
I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.
There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity.
I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.
