New York famous quotes

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

#New York #Cities #Being There

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
-- A. J. Liebling

#Sweet #New York #Texas

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Jobs #New York #Years

I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
-- Aaron Tveit

#New York #Grew Up #Miles

When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
-- Aaron Yoo

#New York #People #Subway

In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
-- Aasif Mandvi

#New York #Thinking #America

I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.
-- Abbey Lincoln

#Music #New York #Unhappy

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.
-- Abigail Breslin

#New York #Want #Way

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

#New York #Cities #Would Be

To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous and ardent is the feeling of the people of the New York ghetto in the present instance that Pres. William McKinley is spoken of in that quarter as "the loving brother of all of us," as one who "died a martyr to the freedom of Jew and Gentile.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Brother #New York #Prayer

While General Howe with a Large Armament is advancing towards New York, our Congress resolved to Declare the United Colonies free and Independent States. A Declaration for this Purpose, I expect, will this day pass Congress...It is gone so far that we must now be a free independent State, or a Conquered Country.
-- Abraham Clark

#Country #New York #4th Of July

I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.
-- Ace Frehley

#New York #Stars #Rocks

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
-- Ad Reinhardt

#New York #School #Artist

Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed
-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#New York #Blow #Cities

In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#Art #New York #Impact

New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#New York #Names #Irreverence

This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu and 50 million of us are going to die.' We wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we've been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear.
-- Adam Gollner

#New York #Fun #Halloween

The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
-- Adam Gopnik

#New York #Coffee #Trying

I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
-- Adam Gopnik

#New York #Coffee #Thinking

You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
-- Adam Rapp

#New York #Cutting #Legs

New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
-- Adam Savage

#Beautiful #New York #Giants

I would come to L.A. for a job, but I love New York.
-- Adepero Oduye

#Jobs #New York #I Love New York

It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that is permissible in good society, and give it as early if not earlier, than it can be learned through any other reliable medium; to give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interest involved; to make of the columns of The New York Times a forum for the consideration of all questions of public importance, and to that end to invite intelligent discussion from all shades of opinion.
-- Adolph Ochs

#New York #Party #Intelligent

I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die
-- Adrian Grenier

#New York #Escaping #Twins

Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#New York #Doctors #Sight

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

#New York #Writing #Cities

I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.
-- Aida Turturro

#Teacher #New York #College

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.
-- Aida Turturro

#New York #Italian #Sides

I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.
-- Aileen Quinn

#Girl #New York #Heart

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.
-- Al Capp

#New York #Husband #Hair

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.
-- Al Goldstein

#New York #Taken #Son

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.
-- Al Goldstein

#New York #Fighting #Battle

I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.
-- Al Leiter

#New York #Want #Mets

I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #New York #Fall

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
-- Al Sharpton

#New York #Cities #Police

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
-- Alain Resnais

#New York #Singing #Saws

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
-- Alan Greenspan

#Success #New York #Business

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.
-- Alan Hovhaness

#Mother #New York #Scotland

On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.
-- Alan Rickman

#New York #Years #Dancing

I love working in New York theater.
-- Alan Rickman

#New York #Theater

The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
-- Alan Rickman

#New York #Eight #Rocks

Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. Then he was suddenly heard to say: "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."
-- Alan Turing

#New York #Powerful #Voice

Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn't been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.
-- Alasdair Gray

#New York #Book #Thinking

Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed.
-- Alber Elbaz

#New York #Husband #One Day

I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!
-- Albert Brooks

#New York #Men

I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.
-- Albert Camus

#New York #Real #Blow

The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
-- Albert Einstein

#New York #Cat #Long

Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.
-- Alberto Salazar

#New York #Winning #Men

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign,
-- Alec Baldwin

#New York #Cities #Stupidity

I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me.
-- Alec Baldwin

#New York #Real #Thinking

I probably have to move out of New York. I just can’t live in New York anymore.
-- Alec Baldwin

#New York #Moving

Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.
-- Aleksa Palladino

#New York #Simple #Thinking

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

#New York #Real #Teenager

New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.
-- Aleksandar Hemon

#New York #Stars #Suicidal

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.
-- Alex Flinn

#New York #Cities #Fairy Tale

The New World Order is a more palatable name for the Anglo American world empire. It's the planetary domination of London, New York, Washington over the rest of the world. It's hard to get people to join that or think they have a part in it if you called it the Anglo American world empire. If you call it the New World Order, then people in India or some place like that or the European Union might think, "Well, there's something there for us too." But that's not what it is; it's the Anglo American New World Order.
-- Alex Jones

#New York #Thinking #Order

We have, without any fanfare or much conversation, moved into a era in which news organizations are expected to explain themselves. Twenty years ago, it would not be expected that the New York Times would explain itself. The concept of what accountability.
-- Alex Jones

#New York #Years #Organization

Im from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry.
-- Alex Karpovsky

#New York #Writing #Boston

I lived in London for small amounts of time, and in Florida and New York.
-- Alex Prager

#New York #Florida #London

I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.
-- Alex Rodriguez

#New York #Thinking #Cities

After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.
-- Alex Winter

#New York #Years #London

London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.
-- Alexa Chung

#Fashion #New York #Style

I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.
-- Alexander Alekhine

#New York #Believe #Victory

It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have to be in black and white? No. But is it fantastic that it was? To see New York like that? Yes!
-- Alexander Payne

#New York #Black And White #Artist

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

#New York

I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that definitely kind of grows you up a little faster than a normal 18-year-old in college, so I think so. I think I've got some street smarts.
-- Alexandra Chando

#New York #Smart #College

If only men were like New York taxi-cabs and had a light that they can switch on when they're interested and off when they're not available. Then you'd know exactly where you were and you wouldn't have to worry about getting it wrong and being horribly embarrassed. --- Lucy
-- Alexandra Potter

#New York #Men #Light

I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some.
-- Alexis Bledel

#New York #Agency #One Day

My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.
-- Alexis Denisof

#Mother #New York #Grandfather

NYU Film School was the way to learn about film, to be exposed to film, to go to repertory houses, to be exposed to New York and see films. I would go to the library and see one, two or three movies a day.
-- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#New York #School #Two

In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt

#Girl #New York #White

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.
-- Alfred Kazin

#Running #New York #Ocean

I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense longing for Europe, for its vital tradition of music, theatre, art, craftsmanship... I felt bewildered and lonely. How was I to use myself?
-- Alfred Stieglitz

#Lonely #Art #New York

I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite.
-- Ali MacGraw

#New York #Careers #Three

I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot.
-- Ali MacGraw

#New York #California #Mexico

Professionally, I decided to commit a lot of my time to California because there wasn't a whole lot happening for me in New York.
-- Alice Barrett

#New York #California #Commit

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.
-- Alice Cooper

#New York #Cities #People

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.
-- Alice Neel

#Country #New York #Race

I love New York, and I would love to try to live here for a while if I ever got the chance, but it's also extremely hectic. I don't think I would cope with that.
-- Alicia Vikander

#New York #Thinking #Trying

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

#New York #Voice #Silence

New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.
-- Alistair Cooke

#New York #World #Village

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
-- Allan Sherman

#Funny #New York #Divorce

In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.
-- Allison Williams

#Hurt #New York #Couple

I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.
-- Alyssa Milano

#New York #Smell #Flesh

My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.
-- Amanda Donohoe

#New York #Sea #Cities

I love my apartment in New York.
-- Amanda Seyfried

#New York #Apartment

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.
-- Amanda Seyfried

#New York #First Love #Voice

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#New York #Gambling #Egotism

Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Christian #New York #Believe

The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.
-- America Ferrera

#New York #Feelings #London

That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.
-- Amor Towles

#Running #New York #Problem

So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of the international environmental group Friends of the Earth, who was in New York for the climate march, told me, “If we can find the trillions [of dollars] we’re finding for conflict whether there’s been the invasion in Iraq or Afghanistan or now the conflict in Syria, then we can find the kind of money that’s required for the transformation that will deliver clean, renewable energy.”
-- Amy Goodman

#New York #Iraq #Environmental

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.
-- Amy Ryan

#New York #Queens #Class

While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.
-- Amy Waldman

#New York #Zero #People

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

#Lonely #New York #Subway

Being in New York City is the best because I'm always walking, taking the subway and walking up and down the stairs - whether you like it or not, you're going to get exercise.
-- Ana Ortiz

#New York #Exercise #Cities

I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.
-- Ana Ortiz

#New York #Children #Thinking

The most important thing is to find the balance between city and nature. I have that 'hippie quality' - my husband is a super-hippie Los Angeles boy - so we'll have to make time to go to Puerto Rico, and upstate New York, and be sure we get to do outdoorsy stuff like that.
-- Ana Ortiz

#New York #Husband #Hippie

I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.
-- Ana Ortiz

#New York #Cities #Uptown

New York has an electronic heart.
-- Anais Nin

#New York #Heart