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New York City Quotes & Sayings

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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

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

A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings ... And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York. — Stephen Birmingham

New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching. — Matt Bomer

Hello from the gutters of New York City, which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine, and blood. — David Berkowitz

At long last, I had found myself vulnerable to the worst of New York City, because at 44 my life was not so different from the way it was at 24. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

You cannot keep something down that is bound to rise. — Juliet C. Obodo

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

New York being the greatest walking city in the world, I tend to walk everywhere as long as I am afforded the time. — Dean Winters

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

What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them? — P.G. Wodehouse

Sure." Olivia smirked. "Good ol' New York Public Library. I'm sure it's up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates. — Cheyenne McCray

Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic. — Brian K. Vaughan

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. — Agatha Christie

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft — Mary Schmich

Happy Cinco de Mayo. In honor of Cinco de Mayo, mayor Bill de Blasio is filling all New York City potholes with guacamole. — David Letterman

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City. — Bob Kane

It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world. — Susan Ertz

It wasn't so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin? — Kelly Braffet

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

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature. — Thomas Jefferson

When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel. — Bette Midler

If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the street and feel anything is possible. — Maria Schell

They have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August — Janet Evanovich

As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to reconnect with a long-held love. — Gina Greenlee

You haven't lived until you died in New York. — Alexander Woollcott

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

Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.' — Jay McInerney

Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons. — Tamara Hughes

Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City. — Therese Anne Fowler

Every time New York City suffered a tragedy, Donald Trump was there to help. And he did it anonymously. — Rudy Giuliani

Bejart is almost never performed in New York City; critically, he just gets attacked here. — David Hallberg

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

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu. — Grace Meng

I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there. — Noah Baumbach

A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans. — Lady Gaga

Till your inner garden and your outer landscape will flourish — Gina Greenlee

I definitely feel most at home in New York City, although I get stir-crazy if I'm here too long. — Martha Hunt

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed ... a race for rent. — Frank Lloyd Wright

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff. — Stephen Vincent Benet

Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City. — Gerald Chertavian

New York has inspired more remarkable music than any other city I can think of. — Moby

New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap. — Tibor Fischer

There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open? — Woody Allen

I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year. — Oksana Baiul

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does — Groucho Marx

A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me. — Liz Sheridan

In New York, Kid Carter was pure vanilla for a city with stronger tastes. — George Vecsey

Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar. — Kenneth Tynan

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City. — Linus Pauling

Our lives follow the stories we tell ourselves. — Gina Greenlee

A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence. — Harold Holzer

New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum's rush. — Damon Runyon

My family often travels to New York City during the holidays, and that's always a good time. — Sara Shepard

If you've broken any promises you've made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it. — Gina Greenlee

The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members. — Carter F. Smith

I just would like to spend more time in New York City. — Scott Speedman

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

New York City is a very tough place. I'm tough, too. When people give me a punch in the nose, I react by getting even tougher. — Ivana Trump

We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics. — George Pataki

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. — John Guare

Let the park live in you until it sings you a song. — Zack Love

History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights) — Kat Georges

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

I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the same of London or Paris, too. — Pierce Brosnan

I bike all the time in New York City. I bike for hours. I can bike for eight hours a day and just go everywhere with bikes. — Bar Refaeli

It's a big change for a country boy like me, to be in the limelight in New York City. It was most definitely a tough adjustment. — Brandon Jacobs

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11. — Joseph J. Lhota

Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race. — Martin Lel

That's the confidence that New York gave me. There was finally a city that appreciated what I had to say and the honesty with which I said it. — Eddie Huang

I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale. — Ed Koch

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

At chaos' core lies the invitation. — Gina Greenlee

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

In the 1970s in New York everyone slept till noon. — Edmund White

If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner. — Grace Paley

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

New York is kind of a mythological city in may ways. — Paul Dano

I grew up in D.C. but always had a love affair with New York. I did 'Central Park West,' 'Sex and the City,' 'Law & Order.' — Darren Star

New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city. — Jeffrey Wright

Dingoes, jackals, skunks, vipers and weasel are now illegal in New York City. Well great, who's going to run CBS? — David Letterman

She had the most beautiful awkwardness — Brandon Stanton

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. — Simone De Beauvoir

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

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

Mammon, n. The god of the world's leading religion. His chief temple is in the city of New York — Ambrose Bierce

I had a good friend in New York City. — Hank Williams Jr.

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

I live in a small apartment. There's only so much Batman memorabilia a guy can hang on to in New York City. — Robin Lord Taylor

The pulse of New York City can be found on the bent elbows of the patrons in Pete's Tavern. — Mickey Wyte

Nothing is lost in a stumble, only in the refusal to get up. — Gina Greenlee

Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City. — Melissa Joan Hart

Even the worst things about Devonairre Street are better than the rest of the city. — Corey Ann Haydu

New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example. — Colson Whitehead

I think of New York City lost in stars
forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love
Tonight the night is full; — Gregory Corso

Increase the number of adventures you act on and you'll lighten the weight of regret. — Gina Greenlee