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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

The horse could not do without Manhattan. It drew him like a magnet, like a vacuum, like oats, or a mare, or an open, never-ending, tree-lined road. — Mark Helprin

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 basically this island in New York, where all the cool stuff is located. — Jason Medina

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

I got to play a brain-dead comatose rapist who wakes up every full moon to cause hell in the small cult film: Coma Man From Manhattan Beach. — Justin Bog

Here they resided, two worldviews separated only by Fifth Avenue, facing off until the end of time or the end of Manhattan, whichever came first. — Amor Towles

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

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

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

Cellphone in his luxurious Manhattan apartment, on the last day they spent together. Jett had been sitting in the chair opposite from the — J.C. Reed

The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan. — Rick Warren

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

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

No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses! — Moby

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

I jumped up in the bubble, yo kid where are you? (114 between Manhattan and Morningside Avenue) This happened just right out the blue — Big Noyd

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

Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

The moment Quan crossed a line with me, I'd have to shut him down, but either he hadn't crossed one yet or my lines weren't where I thought they were. — Lola Dodge

Miss Goodblatt would call on me to read. She said I had a talent. So on a whim, I auditioned for the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan. — Ving Rhames

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

How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful. — Barry Ritholtz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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