New York Quotes

It's funny, I write lyrics in a bizarre way - I'm always writing lyrics, mostly when we're traveling or walking around New York, that's when I'm writing most of the stuff.

There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.

A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower directly across the street.

Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.

As far as liberals are concerned, the Democrats are concerned, when the New York Times clears you, you are cleared.

It's got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.

What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the United States.

In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

I'd rather be tipping cows in Tulsa, than hailing cabs here in New York.

I'm an energetic walker. I don't believe in jogging, but I walk a lot. I walk in New York. It's much faster than a limo.

We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.

I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'

Transportation is an essential part of our lives, and in New York City where driving is not a viable option most of the time, public transportation and taxis are the only way to get around.

In New York, f*** isn't even a word. It's a comma.

I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.

Everyone always talks about the speed of New York, and I still walk slow around New York, and everyone is walking faster than me all the time, and I notice it every time we go out.

My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.

I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.

Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery.

If you are a New York comedian who knows how to improvise and has glasses, you're going to start getting commercials.

I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.

Do you realize that at the moment we have Barry Goldwater fighting the Moral Majority, with The New York Times rooting for Goldwater? Times have changed.

New York is a fun town to go out in. During my twenties and into my thirties I had a good time partying, yes. But nothing where I woke up and I thought that I had a problem.

Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else - it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York.

The people in New York have no idea what they're doing.

I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.

Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

What I like about New York City is nobody cares. If they do, they don't ever approach. They just give you a 'What's up?' and that's it.

I have to say, opening up in New York taught me a lot about that level of attention to detail. London's a tough market, Paris is a tough market, but New York, well, that's extraordinary.

It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless.

There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more space than there really is-to live, to work.

if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.

I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.

A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.

The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss--a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.

Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.

I'm not used to going out every single night, which you can do in New York.

New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone.

I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!

In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October? And then they complain: Oh you can't believe how booked up I am.

I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.

In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.

I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.