New York Quotes

Shooting in New York is the shiznit, if I may be so bold. It was great. New York is a character. People who live here know that.

Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!

Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

In my opinion, New York City police officers are brave.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.'

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.

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.

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

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.

Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.

In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis.

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.

Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become a better writer.

I don't even like New York rappers.

I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.

I got a hotel room at New York New York in Las Vegas and I was very happy. They've got that rollercoaster encircling the entire premises, just like Manhattan.