New York Quotes
New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.
I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.
Were you ever actually going to leave New York, or were you just saying that to get her to finally make a move?” “Clary,” said Luke, “I am shocked that you would suggest such a thing.
Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.
Maybe one of the strangest opportunities was I got to ring the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange.
New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.
All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was like, "Oh! I have a baby!" So, it's great. I'm just having a great time with my children. They're here in New York with me.
I know if I had the chance of going aboard the Titanic in those days, I would have gone - I know I would have. I adore going on the Queen Mary - I think it's the only way to travel from New York.
I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like "Fear of Flying," where you could sort of put yourself, through transference, into the Jewish Girl in New York situation.
Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them.
I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.
That's one thing that you notice in New York that you don't notice in LA is how much music is all over the place.
I'm a Broadway baby, through and through. It's my first love, and it's what brought me to New York in the first place.
My very first tattoo was for my dog, Zora, who died in my arms in New York. Right where her heart stopped beating I got a "Z".
Communicating is a bit of a problem. Playing in New York is great but there are times when I feel a long way from home.
I was more feminine. I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the early-'90s club scene.
I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York.
Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.
My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'
New York is all about sort of a corporate sensibility, and it is squeezed out room for any other kind of sensibility, money talks, bullshit walks, I guess.
You look around New York, and we are surrounded by restaurants and food trucks, and we celebrate food in this city like no tomorrow.
At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.
I just love New York. New York has energy, it has culture, New York is very diverse. There's not a better place in the world.
I came to New York, and it was a really cool time. People like Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee were making their first movies, and they were making movies that were personal narratives.
It's hard for me to figure out where I want to be. But it's definitely in New York. I feel like New York throws different challenges at you and you can be more creative.
I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.
I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.
I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.
In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.
My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.
I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."
I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.
Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.
If you're in an urban city like New York, the corner markets are fantastic sources for tulips and roses.
I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.
I live in New York, so I'm used to the audiences that cheer and clap through a play. It is unusual for London audiences.
It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as strange as the last, and connected.
In New York the other day, there was a pro-Martha Stewart rally. Only four people showed up ... and three of them were made out of crepe paper!