New York Quotes

I just would like to spend more time in New York City.

If you're looking for a New York Times best-seller, I may or may not give you that.

Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.

Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.

I love that New York City is a true melting pot.

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.

Alan Schwarz of the New York Times calls up the NFL to get a response, and what he gets from Greg Aiello, the league spokesman, is more denials. They are now denying their own study.

I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic memories of that part of the world, and I love going back there by writing the Lakeshore books.

My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.

New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.

I love New York. I love to come here, to play here, the tradition here. I'll never forget my first home run here was over Mickey Mantle's head.

When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!

I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City.

The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.

A New York doctor has finished a five year study on what smells have the biggest effect on New Yorkers. The smell New Yorkers like the most: vanilla. The smell New Yorkers like the least: New Jersey.

Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.

New York and New Jersey are probably two of my favorite places to get really good surf in the summertime.

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball, but all sports. But Red Sox Nation is Red Sox Nation.

In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.

My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah, I guess I'm a little bit obsessed.

The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.

Every day is a different day in New York; there's always something new going on.

There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.

We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.

The guys in New York don’t know the new media. San Francisco takes more risks as a culture.

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.

I'm connected to both places because I already feel like New York is my home. But then again I feel like L.A. is my new home and Israel is my real home.

The cool thing for me about moving to New York was that I got to create a new family.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.

I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.

New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.

The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.

I love Obama. He's my favorite president of all time. I have a giant picture in my apartment in New York that is of his Chicago Tribune cover, Mr. President.

New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.

New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

I suddenly realized I was getting ten opening notes a day on my mobile phone, more than when I was in New York. But this is China, where nothing is surprising.

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.

When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

I love working in New York theater.