New York Quotes
-
I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.
-
Reporter Jacob Riis made it his mission to expose the horrors of poverty in New York. New to working with a camera, his flash actually set the walls of One apartment inhabited by five blind people on fire.
-
The 1984 tax trials, when he appealed his New York state and New York City audits, were about Donald Trump claiming zero revenue for his consulting business and taking over $600,000 of deductions, for which he couldn't produce any documentation, no receipts, no checks, nothing, those two elements, zero income and huge deductions, combined with his own tax guy testifying under oath, that's my signature, but I didn't prepare that tax return, those are very strong badges of fraud.
-
I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city can be.
-
Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.
-
I'd love to do something on Broadway. I'd love to spend some time in New York.
-
In New York, just standing still on the sidewalk is a weird feeling. You have this incessant need to do things. Los Angeles is about kicking back, relaxing, your inner child, peace.
-
New York's the lonesomest place in the world if you don't know anybody.
-
Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.
-
New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
-
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
-
I guess I see 'Goo' half as a really New York record because I think there are a lot of really particular New York references on it, but I also see it, for us, as the first of our records that really opened up to the larger world around us.
-
I wish I gardened. I don't have a space for a garden. I'm in an apartment in New York but I do lots of stuff. I read and write and hang out with people. I go see movies.
-
No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
-
I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.
-
In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In New York, people don't question the idea. If you say you're a writer, that's what you are.
-
I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.
-
I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.
-
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
-
I keep saying to myself, 'I'm in New York.' I've heard so much about it. It's big, isn't it?
-
I went to Paris when I was about 18 and then went to Miami and New York. I did all of that alone. I did it to myself.
-
I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.
-
I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.
-
New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature, forced by the artificiality of their environment.
