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Aaron would not come out
aaron entered into agony. — William Goldman

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here. — Daniel Libeskind

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something. — Tea Leoni

I trained for the marathon. I run along the East River, and I used to run all the way down Manhattan, up the West Side and back home. — Amy Carlson

In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?' — Diane Ackerman

Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen. — David Wilkerson

To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard to put into words. — James Bay

Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch. — Raymond Sokolov

I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes. — Theophilus London

Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan. — Eddie Trunk

I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth. — Ethan Suplee

As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat. — Preet Bharara

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive. — Sophie Kinsella

I didn't ever want to leave Manhattan. I have an abnormal fixation. — Charles B. Rangel

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen. — Edward I. Koch

And I still surfed on Manhattan static. — Martin Amis

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister. — Carson McCullers

When everything went wrong at once, it felt like folding origami in a hurricane. — Lola Dodge

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat. — Peter Bart

Manhattan is full of ghosts most of which confront you late at night while underground — Donal O'Callaghan

Benny Anger: What's up, doc?
Doc Manhattan: "Up" is a relative concept; it has no intrinsic value. — Alan Moore

Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say 'conservative' the way people say 'child molester.' — John Stossel

Manhattan has been continuously inhabited for the past 3000 years, and was first settled by humans perhaps 9000 years ago. — Randall Munroe

I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you. — Woody Allen

Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria. — Benjamin Netanyahu

Wow. He's . . . hot. I met Bennett earlier, too. You guys are like the Hot Men's Club of Manhattan. — Christina Lauren

If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man. — Michael Bloomberg

Skyline reveals a city's purpose and character. Oxford had its dreaming spires; Manhattan its glittering towers; Edinburgh its eccentric spikes. — Alexander McCall Smith

We're three women from two different centuries, trying to save the world from oblivion. I don't know about you, but that's way above my pay grade. — G.G. Collins

Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it. — Pearl S. Buck

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

The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing. — Martin Rees

He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman. — Lewis Mumford

There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan. — Maxine Kumin

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists. — Noah Baumbach

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

Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows. — S.J. Rozan

The inconspicuous nine-vehicle motorcade rolled toward Manhattan with motorcycle sirens blaring and lights flashing, attracting no attention at all. — Salman Rushdie

I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I live in a 950-square-foot apartment with one bathroom and two sons. — Judy Gold

Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan. — Jason Calacanis

I'm English, and my favorite movie is 'Manhattan.' — Mickey Sumner

Manhattan is increasingly less available to average-income earners. — Janine Di Giovanni

There is a beehive under every pot of honey on the island of Manhattan, — Adriana Trigiani

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. — David Byrne

No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song. — Ezra Koenig

A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost. — Moby

My own fashion sense has been influenced by 'We'll Take Manhattan.' It's gotten a little better. — Karen Gillan

She's like the Pied Piper of Manhattan--with road rage." - Madhattan Mystery — John J. Bonk

Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life. — Madhuri Dixit

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model. — Michael Bergin

People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan. — Toby Young

She loved Manhattan and could not imagine living anywhere else, but her world was upside down now, and, well, there was nothing certain in her future. — John Grisham

Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif. — Hamish Bowles

Manhattan's probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana's definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides. — Jim Gaffigan

I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan. — Phil Klay

I don't have a car in Manhattan because you have to choose between a car and an apartment. It's that expensive. — Adam Ferrara

We were on different roads, she and me. Two ships that passed in Sheep — Jennifer Flackett

Look at them all. Rats in their cages ... their lives destroyed by love. I'm done with it. I won't be like them. — Jennifer Flackett

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view. — Natasha Lyonne

At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk. — Anthony Marra

Manhattan ... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades. — Jurgen Habermas

Manhattan can act as a giant suction cup, sucking you into its folds. The city breeds no wimps and makes no apologies. — Kate Rockland

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress. — Laura Linney

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. — Gore Vidal

For everyday diners in Manhattan, cracking the waiting list at Nobu is said to be harder than getting courtside tickets for the Knicks. — David Chang

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance. — Val Kilmer

I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country. — IO Tillett Wright

My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan . — Kool Moe Dee

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin — Leonard Cohen

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel. — Andrew Cuomo

Somewhere a million miles away, the girl I once loved was going down her road, and I was stuck back on mine. — Jennifer Flackett

Give me such shows
give me the streets of Manhattan! — Walt Whitman

This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs. — O. Henry

I know I still had to take money from my parents, because no one can afford to live in Manhattan, not even the rich people. — Drew Magary

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway. — Alastair Reynolds

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! — Ed Koch

If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate. — Brock Yates

Manhattan is where America began. — Russell Shorto

I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone, — Ed Koch

You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful. — Cory Lidle

the infinite Manhattan night. — Rachel Cohn

For the most part, political correctness doesn't exist here.
- Toby, Marymount Manhattan College — Eve Ensler

There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't. — John Catsimatidis

It's by far the frostiest thing I've ever seen. I'm going to be the cop who ate Manhattan. — J.D. Robb

It made her smile a little at how fitting it was to think that an entrance to Hades could be somewhere in the financial district of Manhattan. — David Berger

It was a spectral Manhattan, a double-exposed landscape where the past folded back over on itself in overlapping decades. — Joe Schreiber

Your friends' parents drive like assholes. Tell them it's an elementary school parking lot, not downtown fucking Manhattan. — Justin Halpern

Manhattan is a small town. It has to be. Only half a dozen places in Kansas are anything else. — Raymond Chandler

They knew that to survive in Manhattan he would have to know something of bitterness before he arrived. — Mark Helprin

The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park. — Christo

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan. — Jeannette Walls

Today. By the end of 1882, Edison's company is powering electric light for the entire Pearl Street district in Lower Manhattan. — Steven Johnson

Just as we take a train to get to Beijing or Manhattan, we take death to reach a star. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

Actually, New York is great for playing around. I made a lot of studies for New York-a big vacuum cleaner lying on the Battery in Manhattan. — Claes Oldenburg

One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective. — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world. — David Duchovny

I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn. — Paul Dano

The modern world did have a few advantages.
Nice threads. Juicy steaks. Little black dresses ... — Lola Dodge

Note to self: When causing the sewer system of Manhattan to explode, do not stand underneath it. — Rick Riordan

I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls. — Rex Stout