York Quotes

Today coming to work, I saw one of those only in New York scenes. It was a rat who had passed out after choking on a pretzel.

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

I'd rather be in Las Vegas 104 degrees than New York 90 degrees, you know why? Legalized prostitution. In any weather that takes the edge off.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks... And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list.

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.

I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

New York is where you go to catch a big fish.

The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.

In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar.

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist, whereas film was not.

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.

There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.

Listen up, because I've got nothing to say and I'm only gonna to say it once.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.

New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag,' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'

I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as "looking like an unmade bed." He was right!

Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

A lot of people think that it was about Biggie on the East Coast and 2Pac on the West Coast. It wasn't like that. Big ran New York. 2Pac ran America.

When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?

I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.

I'm not sure I can think of any scenario more enjoyable than making 55,000 people from New York shut up.

I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.

I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels.

In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga. They said I was very theatrical... So they said, you're Gaga.

Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times.

I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A.

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.

Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!

We were mighty short of infielders in those days

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

If there was a Mount Rushmore for pro wrestling cities, Chicago and New York would be on there. After that, it's debatable.