York Quotes

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.

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

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.

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

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.

People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.

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.

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.

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

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

I'm in a New York state of mind

New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

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.

Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.

In New York people don't go to the theatre - they go to see hits.

People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.

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

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

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.

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

In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.

I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.

But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.

As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.

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.

New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.

I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.

As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.

I see a New York that is once again the empire state.

Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children.

I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.

And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.

I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.

I've never left for New York. I've stood my ground here my whole career and hopefully will be able to until the day that I die.

I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.

I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

Since the Puffy Combs case in New York, I will not try any more criminal cases

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.