New York Quotes

I like New York better than Seattle. It's bigger. I was really sad when I left, because I miss my friends, but I call them almost every day, and I have friends here now.

I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

New York is a special place; it's a city that I love.

I feel that love. I feel that energy. I always felt that energy when I'm playing in New York.

A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")

The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.

At Mach 20, we can fly from New York to Long Beach in 11 minutes and 20 seconds.

Things have changed very much, several times, since I grew up, and, like everyone in New York except the intellectuals, I have led several lives and I still lead some of them.

I came up to New York at 20 with a suitcase and a ceramic tiger. That was my one piece of furniture and I wanted to save it.

New York is the financial capital of the world. Everything moves so fast, and the music is fast, and some of it is for money.

I didn't know there were so many ghosts in [New] York.

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got The Devil Wears Prada, and its why I even got in the door for Mad Men.

Shooting in New York can be a problem... I had to walk through a crowd, come in the front door, and play the scene.

In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding.

I grew up in New York, so I grew up reading the Sunday Times. It's always something I've been aware of, since my childhood.

I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought - just maybe - we were off to a good start.

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a perfect place for me.

Although I had a few jobs that I didn't like, or quit, or got fired from, I really loved New York from the moment I got here and I never stopped.

Everybody thought New York was this hard, cruel place, and I found it to be an extraordinarily wonderful place filled with the most interesting people.

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

At the end of the day, bin Laden's interest is not Washington and New York, it's the Middle East. He wants Saudi Arabia. He wants to get rid of the House of Saud.

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

The great thing about doing a show in New York is that you can work until the night before.

New York seems very very foreign to me, like more foreign than almost anywhere in America, and almost anywhere in the world, I find it like one of the most overwhelming places.

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.

New York is like America with the volume turned up to 10.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.

I don't know what's going on in America. I know what people in New York and Beverly Hills think about Whole Foods, but I don't know what people anywhere else think.

I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do.

A New York friend said that visiting the South reminded her of nothing more than being in high school again.

I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York.

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

I want the people of New York to be an example to the rest of the country, and the rest of the world, that terrorism can't stop us.

Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honorable title of citizen of New York, and citizen of the United States.

Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.

I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.

Being mayor of New York was a crisis a week and an emergency every other day.

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

If Hillary [Clinton] gets elected what she's promised to do with the [New York] banks is going to make London boom.

By the way, Howard Zinn's History of America is front and center at the gift shop of the New York Historical Society. The New York Historical Society is deluged with school kids on a daily basis.

I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.

I've always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage.

When I moved to New York, I was still in the closet.

Everyone started to have a camera. That's when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature.

I couldn't wait to come to New York to reinvent myself.