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New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic. — Elizabeth Winder

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all. — Jonathan Lethem

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. — Tom Wolfe

I know for sure that I will always compare every city skyline to New York's. Just as I will always compare every boy to Daniel. — Nicola Yoon

I'm here because I was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else, but I don't know about you. — Colson Whitehead

A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes. — Daniel Bruhl

He's body slammed enough people to start a new country. And there could be a neighbouring city for the people he's punched in the throat — Gena Showalter

I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey. — Eric Maskin

New York City isn't Chuck E. Cheese. We don't have ball pits for the kids to play in. We have titty bars and crack. — Jon Stewart

Fun fact: The United Nations building in New York City is the only place in all of North America where smoking is still permitted indoors. — Douglas Coupland

When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love. — Aleksa Palladino

I love traveling, I love waking up in a new city every day. — Brendon Urie

I always thought New York City would be romantic, like a boyfriend who would kiss my hand and throw rocks at my window to get my attention. — Hannah Brencher

My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City. — Raul Castro

I've definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways. — Gillian Jacobs

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan. — Jonathan Franzen

In my opinion, New York City police officers are brave. — Heath Ledger

Experiment with grounding yourself with who you are, not what you do. — Gina Greenlee

They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast. — Sari Botton

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Go for it. It will make a great story. — Gina Greenlee

New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages. — James M. Cain

I love that New York City is a true melting pot. — Stephanie Szostak

I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city. — Aravind Adiga

This warning from the New York City Department of Health Fraud: Be suspicious of any doctor who tries to take your temperature with his finger. — David Letterman

One of my favorite things to do is put my headphones on,blast some good music and just walk my own personal music video — Donal O'Callaghan

You have got to be good in that town if you want to beat the crowd.' So says young John on his first sight of New York City. THE CROWD (1928) — Steven Jay Schneider

I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London or New York or Tokyo. — John R. Rice

New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing. — Margot Robbie

Charlotte is a city with both feet planted firmly in the New South, with the emphasis on the 'new'. — Harry Hoover

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. — Robert Smithson

New York is the only real city-city. — Truman Capote

In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way. — Nate Ruess

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough! — Michael Bloomberg

Everybody's in New York and, hopefully, my younger kids will go to college in New York and find something they want to do so they'll stay in the city — Robert De Niro

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York. — Milos Forman

It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later, so let's be fair. — Ray Nagin

I said, "It really didn't feel like a choice. Where else is there to go? — Stephanie Danler

Shakespeare in the Park is one of the greatest gifts in New York City. You just have to wait for the tickets - and it's worth the wait. — Jesse L. Martin

The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone. — Colson Whitehead

I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963. — Jon Stewart

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants. — Andy Warhol

Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City. — Brendan I. Koerner

Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut. — Fred Allen

The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become. — Trevor Moore

I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city. — Constance Renfrow

New York is a wonderful place to shoot. The bystanders are great. They are enthusiastic. They respect the process, and you get the energy of the city. — Jane Curtin

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City? — Henny Youngman

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented. — A. E. Hotchner

You can't take the New York out of the girl. It's like a little country girl coming to the big city. — Randee Heller

Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired. — Felix Rohatyn

In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe. — Aage Bohr

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig

New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices. — Alison Fell

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment. — Abigail Breslin

Want more fizz in your life?
Shake things up. — Gina Greenlee

New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life. — Trombone Shorty

Endings are the embryos of new beginnings. — Gina Greenlee

New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster. — John Updike

I love you because
Five floor walk up
1 to the 2 to the E
Three avenues — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

She had the most beautiful awkwardness — Brandon Stanton

Like flowers blooming through cement,
we, too, can grow beyond our cracks. — Gina Greenlee

Guys like you can't escape the city. Hell, you a got a blood contract with this place. You're married to the old girl. — Mickey Spillane

Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left. — Joseph Pisani

New insights from being present are a gift. — Gina Greenlee

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven. — Derek Walcott

During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland — Jules Verne

An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers. — Garrison Keillor

New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life. — Hope Edelman

Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city. — Kenneth Langone

I love New York City; I've got a gun. — Charles Barkley

New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still. — Barbara Walters

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler. — Judd Nelson

Why did New York feel more like home to me than home did? I'd heard of love at first sight, but I didn't know it could happen with a whole city. — Lisa Mangum

In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine. — Anna Godbersen

What I don't want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik in New York City. — Steve Reich

An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery. — Gina Greenlee

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world ... are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver. — Alan Brien

I associated excellence in writing with New York City. — Garth Risk Hallberg

I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations. — Mario Testino

I think that's why I like New York City because you can just put on your backpack and just explore; you never know where you are going to end up. — Piper Perabo

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world. — Pearl S. Buck

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city. — Lewis Mumford

New York, without a doubt, is my favorite city in the world. — Linus Roache

I want to experience Dallas. It's a new city where I see new business opportunities. — Rob Kardashian

I hate Brooklyn. — Cassandra Clare

I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world. — Gabriel Macht

You look around New York, and we are surrounded by restaurants and food trucks, and we celebrate food in this city like no tomorrow. — Chris Noth

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms. — Irwin Shaw

New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

I grew up in New York City, a town with different races, religions, and peoples. It breeds tolerance. — Donald Trump

I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City. — Jane Krakowski

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents? — Mark Twain

In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space. — Judith Stone

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor. — John Updike

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city. — Walter Lippmann

No one with seven books in New York City settles for one piece of ass. That's what you get for a couplet. — Philip Roth

I've always lived in a city. I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely. — Ana Gasteyer

That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to. — Amor Towles