New York Quotes

New York has no truck with the past. It expels its dead.

New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.

To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.

My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined.

That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting.

[Juan Wauters] got the tips for Queens because he grew up there.So him and my roommate, Matt Volz, they hooked me up, New York Style.

There's always elements of danger in New York but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

New York is a fantastic city.

Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird.' I don't play that.

A lot of people who are passionate about digital or publishing, they either want to be in New York or Brooklyn.

Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.

Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.

The hardest part about moving from nice California weather was the freezing cold New York.

After moving to New York, I started to love vintage shopping.

The chance of winning a Super Bowl in a city like New York, there's nothing like it. Once you win one, you get that bug to win another one, that edge.

The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.

The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

When I moved to New York, I felt very strong emotionally and mentally. Aside from touring, I'd spent a couple of years alone and because of that, I was able to go out in the world again.

All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.

Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York.

I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.

There are people in New York who feel I should have more of a hometown approach. I feel we have to be a mirror and reflect whats happening on the court.

I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible.

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.

New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland.

I spent time on set in New York and Berlin sitting next to Steven Spielberg while he worked, which was the biggest thrill of my life.

I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time.

Everything is so convenient in New York.

People don't seem to have a problem with a romanticized New York, in fact that's almost all they ever do, in some sense, is romanticize that place. Los Angeles deserves the same courtesy.

I think New York is more stylish than London.

Being in the entertainment industry in L.A. is the equivalent to being in the publishing industry in New York. You don't ever have to hangout with anybody else.

New York at night, from its bridges, is a miracle. When I first came to the city, it took all my fantasies and set them on fire, turned them into flickering constellations of light.

We need everyone to participate to make our city safe. And we know that the vast majority of immigrants are contributing positively to our economy and to our society here in the city of New York.

I love seeing what people wear out to dinner in different cities. I know how differently I dress in New York than I do in Los Angeles.

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

New York is tough on lonely people.

We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.

There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is astounding. Now, I don't know how you count it; it's some people coming multiple times.

I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause.

We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.

First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.

I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.

Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.

Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.