York Quotes

When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.

I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in the New York Times.

If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there.

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York.

I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.

I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.

There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.

I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.

New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

People in New York love having roof parties.

Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.

I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.

I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

We must never give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us, draw this line so that New York will never become New Mecca.

Getting on a plane, I told the ticket lady, "Send one of my bags to New York, send one to Los Angeles, and send one to Miami." She said, "We can't do that!" I told her, "You did it last week!"

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'

I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.

New York Fashion Week comes only twice a year, make it count

New York is so diverse. When you're on the street or in the subway, you're experiencing more of the diversity of New York.

There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years... Anytime I hear that door opening I still think I'm gonna hear her.

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.

Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?

On the murder of New York deli owner Abe Lebewohl: It's almost like wiping out Carnegie Hall. A sandwich to a Jew is just as important as a country to a Gentile.

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

Last night, it was so cold, the flashers in New York were only describing themselves.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.