New York Quotes

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.

New York is a great place to feel inspired all the time.

When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.

The New York times' long-standing motto, 'All the News That's Fit to Print,' should be changed to reflect today's reality: 'Manufacturing News to Fit an Ideology.'

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.

New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

I usually spend the hiatus of 'Dexter' in New York in a way to balance things.

New York [cannot] remain the center of commerce and capital for this continent, unless it has an independent bar and an honest judiciary.

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.

New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.

New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guy was very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.

He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.

New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.

There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.

I came to New York to see what I could see - that's from a children's book, isn't it? - and to find the living part.

Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.

What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?

A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

God is living in New York, and he's a Mets fan.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.

If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi".

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

When I left New York, after getting fired from Metallica, all I remember is that I wanted blood. Theirs.

Tourists - have some fun with New york's hard-boiled cabbies. When you get to your destination, say to your driver, "Pay? I was hitchhiking."

Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

London is my favorite place in the world. I love London. I think it has the best of L.A. and New York in one, and I have a really great friend there.