New York Quotes
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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.
Simon Hoggart -
People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.
Sydney Schanberg
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I could go to L.A. for limited amounts of time, but I like New York too much. I like seasons. I like fall.
Wyatt Cenac -
I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.
Michael Musto -
I'd love to do something on Broadway. I'd love to spend some time in New York.
Richard Madden -
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.
Malachy McCourt -
Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City
Melissa Joan Hart -
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.
Ezra Pound
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New York is one of man's greatest achievements.
Edward Robb Ellis -
I really like New York a lot, but I like it more as a place to visit. It was really difficult for me to live there. As a person from California, I'm still very neurotic and anxious, but in a more laid-back way.
Bethany Cosentino -
I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.
Morgan Freeman -
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.
H. W. Brands -
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.
Ernest Gruening -
This is the place for me where every single dream I ever had came to fruition and I love it dearly. I love ya, New York.
Malachy McCourt
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Everything that happens in America happens in New York.
Hillary Clinton -
No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
Anthony Trollope -
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.
Eve Ensler -
I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.
Michael Rapaport -
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.
Sunny Mabrey -
A.J. Muste was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He later came to New York. He was the minister of a labor temple in the - on the East Side. Then he founded, to my knowledge, the first, maybe the only, labor school; that is, Cornell has a labor department and other schools. But this was a school for - entirely for labor organizers, and he was the - the chairman.
Nat Hentoff
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I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.
Morley Callaghan -
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
Simone de Beauvoir -
When I was a Senator from New York, I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance. But even thought I represented them and did all I could to make sure they continued to prosper, I called for closing the carried interest loophole and addressing skyrocketing CEO pay. I also was calling in '06, '07 for doing something about the mortgage crisis, because I saw every day from Wall Street literally to main streets across New York how a well-functioning financial system is essential.
Hillary Clinton -
I remember finding this book, which showed a New York subway train that had been covered in so much graffiti you couldn't recognise it was a train. I thought, ‘I want to do that… how do you do that?'
Ben Eine