New York Quotes

I'm sorry, Alabama fans. I'm from New York and didn't watch football growing up.

I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway for money.

Then, on my way to California, I decided to stop in New York to do some research. I couldn't leave, because that's where the music was!

What did I do to deserve this?

New York is eating young geniuses [businessmen] up alive. It's eating them up alive, Stone. And it's showing the beauty of the city, but it's showing the toughness and the viciousness of the city.

You have to understand that for the most part in New York, whoever gets the Democratic nomination wins.

Now, whether or not in a place like Chicago you do stop and frisk, which worked very well, Mayor [Rudy] Giuliani is here, worked very well in New York.

Now Carlos Slim, as you know, comes from Mexico. He's given many millions of dollars to the Clintons and their initiatives.

New York is full of creative people, not only in fashion.

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.

Atlanta is not like New York, where everybody piles into one place.

There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.

I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.

I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm not a New Yorker at all, but I'm much happier in New York; I've always liked it better.

It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.

Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.

I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings.

It's hard to say what exactly I like about New York. It's so vast. It seems to go on and on, but that's an illusion. Still, it's fun to be here, especially since I don't drive.

I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.

New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.

The past is like the hair on our head. I moved to New York when I was twelve, but you always have this feeling that wherever you come from, you physically leave it, but it doesn't leave you.

My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.

My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.

New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.

I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.

Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there.

With 'Harry Potter,' I've been all over the world. I probably wouldn't have gone to New York so young if it weren't for the films.

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting.

In New York there used to be some very good clubs with amazing sound systems. Techno was part of the process.

I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.

I love being a gypsy. Home is between New York and California.

There is an energy in New York that is like nowhere else I've been, and I feel free there, and that is inspiring.

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

I have very warm memories about New York, about the old times, mostly the '60s.

I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.

I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.

What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.

American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered such movies as 'Like Mike' and 'New York Minute' with the Olsen twins

I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.

When someone is running for reelection in Texas, they're not looking for votes in California or New York.

I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.

He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.

I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.

As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.