New York Quotes

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.

I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog.

There's a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They've got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

I got my heel stuck in a drain as I was crossing the street and cars were coming. It was really scary. A girl in heels in New York is a hard combination.

The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger.

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.

If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.

New York: A third-rate Babylon.

In New York it seems like there's no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. The vibe is great.

It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

The people of New York took a big chance on me. And I'm well aware of that.

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American.

I had always been warned that American didn't always get sarcasm

The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.

New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City.

Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices.

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.

I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.

Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.

One of the things I love about New York is that it's one of the only places where you could have an entire restaurant dedicated to macaroni and cheese.

New York seems to be absolutely filled with brilliant people.

I left the Midwest thinking I didn't fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I was.

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

New York exists for me. Not me for it.

New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy. ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!

The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.

Saw Torres play their first New York show tonight at Cake Shop. SO good. Do yourself a favor and check out her record. Her voice is KILLER.

I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought - just maybe - we were off to a good start.

I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.

New York is nice, but I don't like it as much as I used to.

New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.

"Entertainers Of Faith," funnyman Jim Gaffigan isn't ashamed of his Catholicism. He's seen here leaving a New York comedy club with his Bible in hand.