New York Quotes
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
Nas
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I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
Lady Gaga
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I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.
Natalia Kills
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
Rain Phoenix
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I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.
Manish Dayal
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In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
Barbara Corcoran
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For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'
Victor Pinchuk
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I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.
Patrick Marber
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Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
Ad Reinhardt
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Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
Vernon Duke
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I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.
Sami Gayle
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I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
Bebe Neuwirth
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Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives.
Mike D The Beastie Boys
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Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.
O. Henry
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I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.
Floyd Abrams
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New York City has an integration problem.
Laura Moser
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Balthazar has a great New York vibe with the accent of a Parisian brasserie. I usually have the corned beef hash with a fried egg on top and wash it all down with Krug Champagne.
Daniel Boulud
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I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.
Imogen Poots
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The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.
Uzo Aduba
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New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstanding job of bringing it back.
Patrick Ewing
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
Sam Waterston
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My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it's someone's home that you walk through.
Larry Ellison
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I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.
Salman Rushdie