New York Quotes

Putin needs to understand and feel in his gut that if the Chechens get a nuclear bomb, they're going to Moscow first, they're not coming to New York.

I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.

Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.

My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.

I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock

Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia, and, still worse, to any applicant from Arkansas.

If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York.

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.

I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.

You want to grow where you came up so when you move, you get noticed easier. You can grow in New York but it's better to come here already solid to get your reputation quicker.

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.

By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

I have ten marathons under my belt, including four New York races and one Boston.

There's such an energy bounding around New York, I can't help but get swept along in it.

When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.

I never thought I would end up being the Senator from New York.

We believe strongly that the road to peace and two states living side by side does not go through New York, it goes through Jerusalem and Ramallah.

We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.

Everything that happens in America happens in New York.

I've been in favor of getting rid of carried interest for years, starting when I was a senator from New York.

Let's have Michael Bloomberg run the whole thing. Did a great job on this stuff in New York. If you want to spend at least what we already are on the poor but actually get results, go for it!

If we're going to talk about mayors, that under the current mayor [of New York in 2016], crime has continued to drop, including murders.

I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.

Oy vey, these guys is New York's spineless Strangled and denied it for Anthony Baez

I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.

My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.

New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.

New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.

I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York sports teams.

Being in New York, a lot of people I knew were top-notch copy editors or photo retouchers, so I had a good community around me that knew how to do the specialized stuff.

By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values.

If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.

Miami's never been more than a spit from New York.

You can survive in New York without much, if you're careful. You have to make your own food at home, and don't buy a lot of clothes.

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

I live in New York right now but I'm originally from my daddy's nuts. We all are. Think about, we the lucky ones - we made it. You all are winners. That's the first race you ever won.

There was no sacrifice in acting for me, even when I was starving in New York. I went three days without eating. Charlie Bronson and I sold blood for $5 so that we could eat.

You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

My taste is very eclectic. I love musicals, but I also love the classics. I've seen some fantastic productions. I was in a musical for 600 performances in Australia that I first saw in New York.