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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
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
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
As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.
— Preet Bharara
I can't believe that 24 hours ago I was in an Egyptian tomb and now here I am, on the verge of a madcap, Manhattan weekend.
— Tam Francis
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
I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.
— Peter Bart
Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say 'conservative' the way people say 'child molester.'
— John Stossel
The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy.
— Avro Manhattan
Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.
— Peter Thiel
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
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
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.
— Mick Jagger
Manhattan scene - you are surrounded and yet you find solace; you find isolation in the tornado of people.
— Harlan Coben
But at that critical moment, detectives knew there was no way they could get to JFK in time from the hotel in midtown Manhattan.
— John Solomon
Brooklyn is a big fat blob with its own ugly shape across from Manhattan; it looks like Jabba the Hutt counting his money.
— Ned Vizzini
Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.
— Joseph O'Neill
As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.
— Kool Moe Dee
Heller wrote Catch-22 in the evenings after work, sitting at the kitchen table in his Manhattan apartment.
— Mason Currey
I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.
— Paul Auster
From moment one, you were the wildest thing I've ever seen. ll I do is imagine how you'd taste.
— Lola Dodge
But you're out of another world old kid ... You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms.
— John Dos Passos
Seeing New York in the movies is what made me want to live in Manhattan one day. I eventually got my wish, and the city has never disappointed me.
— Robert Osborne
One day you have Einstein, puzzling over the theory of relativity, the next you've got the Manhattan Project and a big hole in the ground.
— Justin Cronin
I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.
— Melissa Joan Hart
Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks of Manhattan.
— H.L. Mencken
Manhattan was kaleidoscopic. Cubist. Just when she was feeling one way, the seasons changed, and so did she.
— Lily Koppel
One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that.
— Mitch Leigh
My stomach rebelled at the thought of more food, but a scoop wouldn't hurt. There was always room for ice cream.
— Lola Dodge
I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.
— Laura Linney
Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than 'see you tomorrow?
— Jennifer Flackett
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
Give me such shows
give me the streets of Manhattan! — Walt Whitman
give me the streets of Manhattan! — Walt Whitman
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
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 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
The modern world did have a few advantages.
Nice threads. Juicy steaks. Little black dresses ... — Lola Dodge
Nice threads. Juicy steaks. Little black dresses ... — Lola Dodge
the infinite Manhattan night.
— Rachel Cohn
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
For the most part, political correctness doesn't exist here.
- Toby, Marymount Manhattan College — Eve Ensler
- Toby, Marymount Manhattan College — Eve Ensler
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
No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.
— Ezra Koenig
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
He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.
— Lewis Mumford
Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.
— Noah Baumbach
The inconspicuous nine-vehicle motorcade rolled toward Manhattan with motorcycle sirens blaring and lights flashing, attracting no attention at all.
— Salman Rushdie
Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
— Madhuri Dixit
The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.
— Martin Rees
There is a beehive under every pot of honey on the island of Manhattan,
— Adriana Trigiani
Today. By the end of 1882, Edison's company is powering electric light for the entire Pearl Street district in Lower Manhattan.
— Steven Johnson
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 was a spectral Manhattan, a double-exposed landscape where the past folded back over on itself in overlapping decades.
— Joe Schreiber