New York Quotes

• What you saw was the people of New York having a debate, talking through these issues. It was contentious. It was emotional. But ultimately, they made a decision to recognize civil marriage. And I think that's exactly how things should work.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• My return to the theater in New York was so specific. I didn't want it to be about leveraging my exposure or my fame, so the first show I did in New York was an ensemble piece at an Off-Broadway theater, and I wanted to make sure that it was just about the play and about the experience.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Play

• I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.

  

  Marc Rich
  • People
  • Country
  • Political

• Hi, this is Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger. I'm in New York at the moment, and we've been walking around the city, it's pretty strange. I was walking along with Darren and Cogsy yesterday and we saw this guy playing cards, a little two up type swindle, and he ripped this guy off for like one hundred bucks in like, ten seconds, and the guy started complaining so he just packed up his shop and left! And it was the smoothest swindle any of us had ever seen. So that was probably the highlight of our trip here so far.

  

  Bernard Fanning
  • Strange
  • Complaining
  • Cards

• Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Life
  • City
  • Feel

• A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all get chummy together. Perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Crowds
  • Rains
  • Doorways

• Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia, and, still worse, to any applicant from Arkansas.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Worse
  • Citizenship
  • Arkansas

• I was always drawn toward the Actor's Studio. I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute when I first came to New York. One of my favorite teachers was one of Al [Pachino]'s teachers, a guy named Charlie Laughton, who was just a wonderful, wonderful man.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Guy
  • Wonderful
  • Actor's Studio

• Glamorous people bring something to others. They are seductive attractive - and it has nothing to do with frivolity. Glamour sticks to people. An object is not glamorous, but places where people go are glamorous. That's why New York is the glamour capital of the world.

  

  Jacqueline de Ribes
  • Places
  • Object
  • Glamorous

• Especially students. I love to turn them on to a story. Some of them have to go see me as an assignment, like kids from the schools in New York will go to the Y. I want them to know why I love this and why they should too.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • School
  • Why
  • Kids

• I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110 percent every night.

  

  Bret Michael Sychak Poison
  • New York
  • Performing
  • I Love It

• The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Enemy
  • Politician
  • Spoil

• I started as a child, in this PBS series 'Voyage of the Mimi,' which led to driving down to New York for 'Afterschool Special' auditions, which led to moving to Los Angeles. I wanted to be an actor. But in L.A., I got into film technology, and I was building cheap editing systems and would edit my friend's acting reels.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Technology
  • Friend
  • Moving

• New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.

  

  Baratunde Thurston
  • City
  • Cities
  • Levels

• I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.

  

  Ella Baker
  • College
  • Facts
  • Depression

• Look, that homeless guy is sleeping on my face. New York really is where dreams come true.

  

  Rachel
  • True
  • Guy
  • Dream

• I could move to New York. I love it here.

  

  Joel Robuchon
  • I Love
  • Move
  • Could

• I feel like everybody knows what is at stake. Everybody knows the importance of every game. We had a good meeting before the game in New York and I think it helped us out because it got us focusing on what we need to do as a basketball team.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Good
  • Game
  • Team

• The will of a wealthy New York woman, in addition to distributing her worldly goods to her children, left them the following advice: Love one another. Hold fast to that whether you understand one another or not, and remember nothing really matters except being kind to one another in the name of Christ and to all the world as far as you can reach.

  

  James Keller
  • Woman
  • New York
  • Wealthy

• On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Singing
  • Lifetime
  • Broadway

• You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • World
  • Wise

• In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Way
  • Purpose

• In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• The play I did on Broadway a couple of seasons ago started out of town and it moved its way into New York because of the experience that we had out of town.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Experience
  • Play
  • Couple

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