York Quotes

In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.

The love in the Midwest is way different from New York - people accepted me like one of their own, and they showed me a bunch of love, so I did a big song dedicated to them.

Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

When I first moved to New York, someone who thought they knew more than I did said: "You have to always look like you know where you're going when you get out of the subway."

We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

New York ladies all look immaculate.

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

You gotta call a blacksmith.

I lowered taxes in New York. I reduced the size of government in New York. I took a $2.4 billion deficit and turned it into a $3.2 billion surplus. And I reduced taxes over 23 times or 23 times.

I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

I had a good friend in New York City.

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.

[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.

I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

I love shopping, but I can find something to buy wherever I go! London is great for shopping, as is Los Angeles and New York - but I can find a good shop in the middle of nowhere!

I was in Taiwan recently and was completely amazed by the density of population. It makes New York look like no one is out on the streets.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon.

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

I love New York, and I would love to try to live here for a while if I ever got the chance, but it's also extremely hectic. I don't think I would cope with that.

I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'

It's great to be young and be a Yankee!

An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.

I have no plans to have any other home than Moscow. However, I love to travel, and I'm very comfortable in New York. In many ways, it reminds me of Moscow in its energy and drive.

To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.

I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.

When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

I wanted to try something different. Most people my age go off to college; I thought I'd try out New York.

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

I love holidays in New York. I love 'em. I want to celebrate something all the time and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City.

I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.

After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.

A wet dream in the mind of New York.

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.