The City Quotes

I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do.

New York City is a fascinating place because it's very good at using the energy in attracting some of the best and the brightest from everywhere.

Ive been in New York City now for 22 years.

That's the great thing about the 'Sin City' movies. Each little slot is incredibly meaningful, and each character has their own moment.

I just did a part in 'Sin City 2.' I got to do a scene with Ray Liotta. Amazing man, extraordinary gentleman who was just so kind to me... I'm so excited about that I think it's gonna be very cool.

I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!

Everybody. No matter how they feel about me, everybody on Oklahoma City, on that team, of course I watch them. I support them. I want them to do well.

What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I was made fun of by a lot of the Factory people. Even Andy Warhol thought I was a hick.

I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

I like living in the city, but I like being able to get out of it as and when I like.

Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.

The rumored frontrunner for [Donald] Trump's Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who of course has no foreign policy experience.

I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.

These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder every burden every disadvantage I've learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish. I walk these streets famished.

Speaking of Margaret Sanger, Grandson Alexander Sanger, head of Planned Parenthood of New York City, said: She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'

Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.

My problem with being in New York City is that you really can't make a living as a comedian. You can, but you have to also take writing jobs, which means less stage time.

New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

Robert Altman made that movie Kansas City about the jazz scene in the city, and we saw that band all together, and that was an amazing show. That's what I got into. I like jazz.

I don't tan in New York City. I don't want to waste it on that. I'll do my own fake tan, actually. It's awesome.

I'm always kind of hoping that I'll get a movie that shoots in Alabama so I can go back and kind of get a break from my city life.

I got a call from an agent to come to New York City, and write for the 'Ford Star Revue.' Because at the time there wasn't much 'national television'.

Even if you live in New York City, you can have a little basil plant in your window, and that could be considered urban farming.

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.

I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

There were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.

Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. / So I'm in love with / New York City.

I think that's why I like New York City because you can just put on your backpack and just explore; you never know where you are going to end up.

I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

I've always been a very lucky guy. A lot of crazy things have happened in my career, but I guess the first big break was when I moved to Mexico City from Chihuahua.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's disgusting.

It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later, so let's be fair.

People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

It was Night. In most places, Night is a time for sleep, for calm, and for mystery. But not in New York City, where many things conspired every evening to murder the night.

After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin City.

People come to New York City because they want something different... now, people are just getting the sterilized version of that.

People die when you crowd the streets of New York City with protesters. You can do plenty of protesting on the sidewalk.

I couldn't be more excited to return to the ING New York City Marathon.

I have this great fear of Mexico City. I won't go to Mexico City unless someone meets me at the airport and is with me. I just feel very vulnerable there.

You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.