The City Quotes
There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.
New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.
I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.
We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.
I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.
If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.
The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.
And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.
My favorite thing of all time is a New York City when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.
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As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.
It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.
What I don't want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik in New York City.
Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.
I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.
I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.
You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations
My favourite city for nightlife is Toronto, as it has such a multicultural feel, with so many different restaurants and theatres.
It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress.
A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me.
The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.
It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.
The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.
CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.
I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.
I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.
You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.
Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored
But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.
When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.
I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.
new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.
New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.
New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the cold clear light.
Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.