York Quotes

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.

The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

People come up to me all the time in New York. Not for autographs, but to talk about movies, often in a very scientific way.

As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured. —New York, Sept. 26, 2007

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

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.

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.

Actually, New York is great for playing around. I made a lot of studies for New York-a big vacuum cleaner lying on the Battery in Manhattan.

I came to New York to study ballet and English.

Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow.

I'm from New York, so I'm a big Howard Stern fan.

I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor.

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

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.

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.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

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

Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.

Istanbul these days has as much dynamism as New York.

I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

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

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

I love Edith Wharton. And I love old New York. Anything to do with New York.

I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community.

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.

If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere; it's up to you, New York, New York.

New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

The New York Times ,the New York Times is actually telling the Clinton, both of them that they need to come clean on all the money where it came frоm.

Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.

I love New York. It's kind of perfect. I'm in New York part of the time and in L.A. part of the time. That's always been a goal, to be bicoastal in a real way.

In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.

I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train.

If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.

In New York and LA, there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something.

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.

You get a timeless cool card in New York.

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.

You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.

Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.