New York Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

How come New York gets all the cool plane crashes?

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish

I think of New York City lost in stars forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is full.

If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York.

New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters

I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London or New York or Tokyo.

I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.

I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.

It was announced that President Obama and his wife, when they're finished in Washington, are moving to New York City. The guy just can't get enough gridlock.

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

I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.

Things always change, and New York teaches you that.

Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.

I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.

In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

When a man is tired of New York he is tired of work. And thought. And cheesecake.

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all.

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.

My understanding of God has come from my own personal experiences. Because I was in trouble so many times in New York that if you were me, you would believe in God too.

New York is a sucked orange.

New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

I love my family in Baltimore. But on their side of the family, I love their cousin Charles Thompson, because he's from New York like me.

Sparky Lyle went from Cy Young to Sayonara.

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York

In a free society we're supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it.

I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch.

It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.

I don't think I'm ready for New York.

Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.

Before passage of this [Federal Reserve] Act, the New York Bankers could only dominate the reserves of New York. Now, we are able to dominate the bank reserves of the entire country.