The City Quotes

Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he still can't see.

Actual artists are like mythological creatures, ' she heard herself opine. 'You hear about them, but a sighting's pretty rare.

We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.

Just like life, it was over much too soon. And just like life, there weren't any answers. But like that one-in-an-eight-million great New York moment, I didn't need one. (Dark City Lights)

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

Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering.

All these threads, like the ley-lines he'd read about in his Time-Life history books, converging on the Cicciaro girl, who lay there unaware, a glass-coffined beauty whose kingdom was in ruins.

I'm a wanderessI'm a one night standDon't belong to no cityDon't belong to no man(Note: These lyrics were inspired by Roman Payne's quote from his novel "The Wanderess".)

Fill this city of mine with people as, You filled the river with fishes O Lord.

The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become unreal.

The light of an early Summer afternoon as it slips toward dusk has so many good things wrapped up in it..

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.

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.

Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.

It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.

I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified.

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American

The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.

I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City.

To people from 'Brooklyn-Brooklyn' North Brooklyn is really just South Queens.

The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.

The Bronx? No Thonx!

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up

To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.

New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.

Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.

New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum's rush.

Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar.

New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center.

No matter how tired I was, I always felt more awake when I walked.

My new life was unstable and unsure, but each new day was shot through with new possibility.

Man with goatee. Man who looked like a Beatle. All the Beatles at once. Woman wearing newspaper hat. I'd grown used to how weird New Yorkers were, and I could fit them into types.

New York City is the place where people come to invent, reinvent, or find the room they need to be who they wish to be.