York Quotes

In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.

I'd rather be tipping cows in Tulsa, than hailing cabs here in New York.

New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.

I never did any sports at school. It wasn't until I moved to America, to New York, when I was about 20 that I actually thought that if I wanted to be an actress I might have to start working out.

What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the United States.

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.

I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

Yes, I've now got this nice little apartment in New York, one of those L-shaped ones. Unfortunately, it's a lower case l.

My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

If you were back in the Cretaceous Period - the last of the time of the dinosaurs - and you were driving from New York to Philadelphia on the New Jersey Turnpike, you would be driving across water.

In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.

I don't even like New York rappers.

There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.

A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower directly across the street.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.

Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.

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.

Everyone always talks about the speed of New York, and I still walk slow around New York, and everyone is walking faster than me all the time, and I notice it every time we go out.

If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.

The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss--a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.

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.

New York is breaking my heart. I’ve often said that it’s like having a really interesting boyfriend suddenly becoming really, really into wine, and having to have endless conversations about it.

RyanAir have been getting a hard time because they've launched a £7 flight to New York. Although as always with RyanAir it does land slightly outside of New York. In Dublin.

It's funny, I write lyrics in a bizarre way - I'm always writing lyrics, mostly when we're traveling or walking around New York, that's when I'm writing most of the stuff.

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

Do you realize that at the moment we have Barry Goldwater fighting the Moral Majority, with The New York Times rooting for Goldwater? Times have changed.

It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.

One of the things I've always loved about anime is that, even though it comes from Japan, it's so international - so much of the big anime I love takes place in Italy or France or New York.

Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York

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.

I love my apartment in New York.

If you are a New York comedian who knows how to improvise and has glasses, you're going to start getting commercials.

A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.

Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery.

Shooting in New York is the shiznit, if I may be so bold. It was great. New York is a character. People who live here know that.

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless.

I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!

I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.

New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.

If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

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

In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.