The City Quotes

I know that New York City remains the highest density urban area in the country and by far dedicates more of its own funds to fighting terrorism than any other municipality.

Suicide by carbon monoxide used to be done in the garage. Now, all you have to do is go to Mexico City and inhale.

I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either.

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys on the street didn't even have time to finish their catcalls.

Ev'rythin's up to date in Kansas City.

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

Transportation is an essential part of our lives, and in New York City where driving is not a viable option most of the time, public transportation and taxis are the only way to get around.

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life

There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane since the Wright brothers.

I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.

I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.

Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.

Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

What I like about New York City is nobody cares. If they do, they don't ever approach. They just give you a 'What's up?' and that's it.

Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?

City of Fallen Angels ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership.

I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys.

In my opinion, New York City police officers are brave.

You must never be afraid in New York City, because then you will call bad stuff to you and you will not like it there.

I do not go outdoors. Not more than I have to. As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

That's our mission: to clean and green New York City - one block at a time.

New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.

In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.

New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices.

All knowledge hurts.

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--

Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates.

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

But they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?

I think she just asked if she could touch my mango.

New York: A third-rate Babylon.

Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love.

It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.

I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had

New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.