New York Quotes

The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.

We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.

I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind

I was in Taiwan recently and was completely amazed by the density of population. It makes New York look like no one is out on the streets.

I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.

I lowered taxes in New York. I reduced the size of government in New York. I took a $2.4 billion deficit and turned it into a $3.2 billion surplus. And I reduced taxes over 23 times or 23 times.

When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.

If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.

Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.

People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.

When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

I love New York, and I would love to try to live here for a while if I ever got the chance, but it's also extremely hectic. I don't think I would cope with that.

It's great to be young and be a Yankee!

Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.

A wet dream in the mind of New York.

I wish I gardened. I don't have a space for a garden. I'm in an apartment in New York but I do lots of stuff. I read and write and hang out with people. I go see movies.

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

I remember what a thrill it was to go from the back streets of Birmingham to Madison Square Garden in New York...it's like playing on Mars. You can't buy that.

I love shopping, but I can find something to buy wherever I go! London is great for shopping, as is Los Angeles and New York - but I can find a good shop in the middle of nowhere!

New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.

We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

You gotta call a blacksmith.

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.

If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic.

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.

I love holidays in New York. I love 'em. I want to celebrate something all the time and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City.

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.