York Quotes

I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?

In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.

Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!

I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.

The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa , the consciences of democracies, and the price of prostitutes in New York

People had said to me New York is kind of cutthroat and people walk past you on the street. I find it the opposite. I find that people want to talk.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you.

You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you, and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual.

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.

When I was younger, my view of New York was really wide-eyed and excited. I've lived here all my life.

Every day is a different day in New York; there's always something new going on.

Somehow in the middle of the L.A. trendiness, Boston conservation, New York chic and San Francisco intellectual mellow, there's a place where everything meets.

If one is enlightened, one does not perceive life with North, South, East and West. There is no California, there is no New York. In a higher bonding state of attention, everything is fluid light.

I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New York steak.

Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.

I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.

Whenever I go to New York I try to soak up as much live music as I can, including as many nights at the opera as I can manage.

I want to own the New York Jets, that's what I want. And I absolutely believe I am going to own the Jets.

I think that I was lucky to have that period of time [ like coming to New York] because everything was so exciting and new.

There's something about New York. You can get a nice feeling of belonging as a writer here. It's probably the best city on Earth like that. I miss the wisecracking of New York.

I grew up in New York wanting to be like those funny men in the movies and on the radio.

My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.

All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.

Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.

Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best of Lawrence Block, which is to say that this is very good stuff, indeed.

He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to be.

New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business.

It's good (Michelle Malkin's) in D.C. and I'm in New York. I'd spit on her if I saw her.

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

I grew up as a horseback rider and a volleyball player so honestly when I got a gym membership in New York, I thought I was going to die.

When I'm home in New York, I box every day.

I used to live in New York, and I have friends that work in the fashion world, and I feel like I had an ear to the ground there.

I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.

In 1996, the possibility of going to New York came up. From then on, I started searching for opportunities on the international market and the plane became my home.

Well, for street clothes, a lot of what I wear is Jones New York. I am well-endowed in the derriere, and they can handle that.

I've been in New York for 15 months. Winning two stars in the Zagat number one best newcomer within ten months of opening in New York has taught me a big lesson.

If you think customers are impatient in New York, wait to you see how impatient they are here in L.A.

I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.

I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.

Putin needs to understand and feel in his gut that if the Chechens get a nuclear bomb, they're going to Moscow first, they're not coming to New York.

I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.

Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.

My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.

I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.