York Quotes

If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.

I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.

One of the big things I miss about New York is not my friends so much; it's Shake Shack, the burger place. I miss Shake Shack.

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival.

My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.

Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.

I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don’t care who you are, where you were born, what you do with your life. Everyone can come here in music and be equal.

I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don't even like New York rappers.

If you're bored in New York, it's your own fault.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

I've been trying to get into the Royal Box in New York for years. They say I'm too dirty, my material is too blue. But I think Redd, the whites and blue can be a nice combination.

I wanted to see New York . . . so I tried to see how fast I could do it in.

The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

Mickey Cohen: New York, its like being a rat in a maze, everyone living on top of each other, but out here, I can breathe. I love Los Angeles.

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.

I'm from New York and I love New York and I'm always repping New York, but what I represent is something deeper than just being a New York rapper.

My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.

When I moved to New York, leggings were always a staple piece in my closet and I'm always with leggings, a T-shirt, a cool jacket and shoes cause that's what would be easier for me when I was a kid.

Out of what... a thousand?

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

How many more people have to die or be afraid or be injured in Chelsea, New York, Erin, for us to wake up?

New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.

In New York, they like winners. They don't like second place.

I would rather have a square inch of New York than all the rest of the world.

I havent seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.

Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.

If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.

New York is my, you know, second hometown.

All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it's inside of me and it will be inside of me until they put me in a box in the ground.

The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of The New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.

Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.

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.'