Manhattan Quotes
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Could I begin life again, knowing what I now know, and had money to invest, I would buy every foot of land on the Island of Manhattan.
John Jacob Astor -
The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.
J. D. Salinger
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
Ed Koch -
I love Manhattan.
Samantha Bond -
It seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that there are an awful lot of people in Manhattan. And it's getting worse.
Cynthia Heimel -
In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
Quentin Crisp -
Manhattan is less legit than it once was, for sure, but this is still the city that never sleep. It is also the city of ‘Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren.
Hank Green -
I like the theater, dining and chasing women. Let me put it this way: I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan. It's like a wet dream.
Michael Bloomberg
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On "[Total] Recall" also [sets were extraordinary], but this was next-level. They built two or three blocks of midtown Manhattan in 1926 and it was inhabited with 400 extras and 24 Model Ts and a train system and all that kind of nonsense. It was madness. You would walk into shops and they would have the goods from that period, it was just huge.
Colin Farrell -
I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.
Paul Auster -
The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
I live part-time in Manhattan, so I'm very familiar with the area, ... Being from Miami, I love hot and humid weather, so I feel right at home here. ... I'm staying at a really nice house that a friend of mine lent me. So instead of being in a hotel, it's a little bit more of a homey feel.
Cristie Kerr -
I was going to clubs in Manhattan when I was 14.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
I took my iPod to the Apple store here in Manhattan and asked them to replace the battery. And they explained to me that Apple does not offer a service to replace the battery in the iPod, and my best bet was to buy a new iPod.
Casey Neistat
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What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.
Andrew Cuomo -
Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible ‘anarchy’, why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?
Murray Rothbard -
I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan; you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. Its also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower.
Norman Foster -
No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.
Ezra Koenig -
Today we affirm our commitment to lower Manhattan and the City of the New York, the financial capital of the world.
Henry Paulson
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Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!
Walt Whitman -
Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now, The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even the sight of the wounded,) Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.
Walt Whitman -
I'm English, and my favorite movie is Manhattan.
Brigitte Michael Sumner -
I have a Manhattan club chair in dark espresso leather that I always read in. It's a place where I can contemplate other people's thoughts and stir my imagination.
Merle Dandridge