New York Quotes

I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around so many writers. Because I've never been around so many writers.

New York is a much younger city that drives culture. In Paris, older women drive the culture - really drive culture.

I went to New York for a research trip, just because it has these iconic street canyons. It's one of the few cities that has sidewalks that are wide enough for a sea of umbrellas to be there.

It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.

I just love New York, I love the people. The energy of the place. I really feel energized working here. I've always been made to feel very welcome, and it's a tremendous city.

I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...

A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")

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

"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.

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.

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.

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.

Being recognised on the street in New York is pretty surreal.

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.

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

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

At Mach 20, we can fly from New York to Long Beach in 11 minutes and 20 seconds.

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 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got The Devil Wears Prada, and its why I even got in the door for Mad Men.

[New York] gives you room to be weird; you can be yourself and you can wear whatever you want. No one is really going to judge you because everyone is doing their own thing.

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South

I have a wonderful white coat I can wear on the court and also in New York for those rainy days...its lady-like and goes perfect with my personality.

I just moved [Bloomington] because I didn't do well with New York. It made me kind of anxious and it was just incredibly expensive. It just has this very small-town feel.

I didn't know there were so many ghosts in [New] York.

New York is like a vacation - no beach required.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

The great thing about doing a show in New York is that you can work until the night before.

I grew up, especially as an actor thinking that I had to move to New York to be a good actor. But after a while you start to live the world a little bit and you start to appreciate where you're from.

There's been so many, I think [Lucas Goodman and I] share this, but for us, Afropunk was a really big moment just because it was in New York.

The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.

New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.

I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school.

Before Fringe I was in Dirty Sexy Money playing Jeremy Darling who was this bratty New York socialite.

My favorite New York memory is that blizzard in '96. I get chills thinking about it. It's my favorite time here - call me crazy. I'm from Canada, and it's very cold up there.

When you're on the road for six months of the year and you're paying New York prices and not even living in your apartment, it just didn't make any sense. So I had to get out of there.

Any time there's a coaching change, that's something that's pretty significant, and especially for the New York Giants, who have had the same coach for a long period of time. But we embrace it.

I want to be a New York Giant for a very long time.

New York is the financial capital of the world. Everything moves so fast, and the music is fast, and some of it is for money.

I grew up always wanting to be a dancer and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways.

In New York everyone just kind of knows each other.

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.