York Quotes

There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.

I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.

I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm not a New Yorker at all, but I'm much happier in New York; I've always liked it better.

It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.

Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.

I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings.

It's hard to say what exactly I like about New York. It's so vast. It seems to go on and on, but that's an illusion. Still, it's fun to be here, especially since I don't drive.

I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.

New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.

The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.

The past is like the hair on our head. I moved to New York when I was twelve, but you always have this feeling that wherever you come from, you physically leave it, but it doesn't leave you.

My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.

My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.

New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.

I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.

My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah, I guess I'm a little bit obsessed.

Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there.

With 'Harry Potter,' I've been all over the world. I probably wouldn't have gone to New York so young if it weren't for the films.

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting.

In New York there used to be some very good clubs with amazing sound systems. Techno was part of the process.

I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.

I love being a gypsy. Home is between New York and California.

There is an energy in New York that is like nowhere else I've been, and I feel free there, and that is inspiring.

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

I have very warm memories about New York, about the old times, mostly the '60s.

I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.

I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.

What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.

American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered such movies as 'Like Mike' and 'New York Minute' with the Olsen twins

I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.

When someone is running for reelection in Texas, they're not looking for votes in California or New York.

I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.

He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.

I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.

As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.

I've lived in New York for a really long time.

I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.

I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

I can tell you, having been in court today in New York, that the requests for the video outtakes have been dropped.

I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.

One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had the money.

The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.

New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists.