New York Quotes

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

We were mighty short of infielders in those days

Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.

Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!

New York is the only real city-city.

Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.

I think you can tell when a New York show isn't shot in the city. It's so iconic and has such a specific energy.

Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.

I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or even Texas. It's coming from a place in Kansas called the Cosmosphere.

It find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams.

In Islamic theology, the phallic symbol is very important. Your biggest phallic symbol is New York City and your tallest building will be the phallic symbol they will hit.

His reputation preceded him before he got here.

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department.

Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.

I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.

I love to play for Pittsburgh. If they can't afford me, then I'd love to play in L.A. or New York.

L.A., its nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.

A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.

I still love doing that. There's nothing like being able to go back and play volleyball again with a team cause, I can have my volleyball in my New York apartment but we can't do so much there.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

I remember flying with Air India to New York quite a few years ago now and I love Indian food, so the fact that I had a curry on board was fantastic.

New York is the last true city.

Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump - better a lamppost on Broadway than the brightest star in the sky.

The best city for fashion is Tokyo. You see styles there you won't see in London, Paris, Milan or New York. I also like the fashion scene in Los Angeles - it has a unique look.

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.

New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.