The City Quotes

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.

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 City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.

I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am.

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.

I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

It's probably similar to being in New York City and having a cab driver behind you and you're driving too slow. It's not the most pleasant thing.

Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.

Ebola has arrived in New York City. And I say, 'if it can make it there...it can make it anywhere!'

Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.

This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an actor - I feel like Mary Tyler Moore throwing her friggin' hat in the air.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.

In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing.

Unusual weather for New York City. Today it was 68 and foggy. No, wait a minute, that's me. I'm sorry, that's me.

The difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City is the difference between getting conned by a beautiful call girl and getting mugged by a crack head.

I come from a place where you have a lot of sky. But [in New York City] you have to really look up to realize that there is eventually sky, somewhere. ...Sky is not a common commodity.

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.

In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

I walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.

When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite.

I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City

I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.

Berlin is my favourite city.

It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.

Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

I don't know about you, but I call impromptu vomiting harm.

Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night. Its like musical chairs except everybody sat down around 1964.

In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.

'25th Hour,' like a lot of my films, takes place in New York City. I've been very fortunate to make films in the city that I live. I mean, it's great going home at night instead of being on location.

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.