New York Quotes

Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night. Its like musical chairs except everybody sat down around 1964.

NEW YORK! I [love] U! You're OFFICIALLY the coolest place on the planet!

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.

The New York Marathon: a fantastic event.

I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record

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.

In New York, you can just wake up and everything sorts itself out. I love that, not having a plan.

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.

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in 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.

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

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.

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

It's a town you come to for a short time.

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.

I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.

Nothing lasts in New York. Everything's always changing in really obvious ways.

I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa.

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am.

I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at.

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

I didn't come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me.

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.

In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.

You get a timeless cool card in New York.

Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.

I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again... The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.