New York Quotes

And today is really the happiest day of your life, because today you woke up and stumbled across the shadow of your soul in broad daylight."From Central Park Song: a Screenplay

The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.

Well why don't you lean over this counter a little more and give me your best kiss, and then I'll tell you if I want you to take me out to dinner.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.- Mark Twain

Hell isn’t fire and brimstone. It’s New York City.

Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.

People say that Paris is the city of love, but for Raia, New York deserves the title more. It's imposible not to fall in love with the city like it's almost impossible not to fall in love in the city

Love was like a stock, Lizzie realized. You gambled on its paying off in the long run—but it could just as easily cost you everything.

This women's orchestra made a demure picture in their muted dove grays, alright, but they played like they were gowned in scarlet and gold.

The three phases of Santa belief: (1) Santa is real.(2) Santa isn't real.(3) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery.

Next time -- we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren!

Gentlemen. You are looking at the true Abraham Lincoln of Arabia. And in order to end our internal bickering - our civil war, if you will - I have solicited your aid.

There is a little bit of everybody in everybody.

I once believed soft, warm, beautiful things could never flourish in an environment of hard concrete and cold, dark bricks.

These were the new girls of New York- complete with rapid heartbeats from too much nicotine and coffee. They were nervous and fluttery but completely alluring- the new face of urban femininity.

I slept badly that night, my vivid dreams populated by ghosts. As much as it revived ailing spirits in day light, the fizzy energy of NY seemed to feed on human frailty at night.

I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists]

It reminded me of what Dad said after every snail’s crawl home fromAlbany when snow hit.“It’s New York, people. It’s winter. We get snow. If you aren’t preparedto deal with it, move to Miami.

But how a game plan came to be, what a finished plan looked like, I had no idea. I’d heard that all copies were shredded as soon as the game was over.

Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend!

Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.

We’re all a little broken, on the sidewalk. On the street. In the city.

When one good thing happened to you, other good things seemed to follow.

That was the wonderful thing about New York: Years of bad blood could be wiped out with a single gesture of friendliness.

Beware what you consume, lest you appetite grow by what it feeds on.

He was a Crosby, Stills and Nash song. He loved the one he was with. He was casual with a capital C.

I’m going to drag you down to the basement, kneel at your feet, rip your jeans down and I’m going to make you come so hard with my tongue the whole damn pub will think you’re being murdered.

He smiled that smile again. How could something so lazy do such busy things to her body?

The rhythm of a New York summer is passionate and powerful, evoking a rapid calypso, with July being the musical climax.

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

People go to LA to "find themselves", they come to New York to become someone new.

...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

I once started outto walk around the worldbut ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

I mean it, " I said. "You're in danger.""Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.

Tradition does not mean a dead town

Skyscraper National Park

New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand.

Guys like you can't escape the city. Hell, you a got a blood contract with this place. You're married to the old girl.

The safest day at the Melody is St. Paddy's, " adds another Mardi Gras girl. "All the cops are out vomiting at the parade.

Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark.

It's a city where everbody mutinies but no one deserts.

The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years.

people in new york are authorized by convention to snoop around and mentally measure and pass comment on any real estate they're invited to step into.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.

When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends : "What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to any who was lucky enough to be unable to read

New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillac's, and the beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.

The Empire State, a lonely dinosaur, rose sadly at midtown, highest tower, tallest mountain, longest road, King Kong's eyrie, meant to moor airships, alas.

No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the world.

There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.