Manhattan famous quotes

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

#Rome #Manhattan #Earth

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto

#Mexican #Citizens #Manhattan

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.
-- Andrew Cuomo

#Engineering #Manhattan #Made

The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Hermosa Beach, California.
-- Bryan Burrough

#Beach #California #Manhattan

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

#Manhattan #Brooklyn #Brilliant

I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.
-- Cecily von Ziegesar

#Writing #Character #Manhattan

People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan.
-- Christine Quinn

#Winning #People #Manhattan

It seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that there are an awful lot of people in Manhattan. And it's getting worse.
-- Cynthia Heimel

#People #Manhattan #Awful

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

#Strong #People #Manhattan

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

#Kids #Manhattan #World

Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.
-- David Wilkerson

#Miracle #Manhattan #Brooklyn

I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone,
-- Ed Koch

#Gone #Manhattan #Want

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

#Manhattan

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.
-- Ellen Burstyn

#People #Manhattan #Brooklyn

No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.
-- Ezra Koenig

#Song #Velvet #Manhattan

I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.
-- J. Cole

#Kids #Cities #Manhattan

Manhattan cabs are born old.
-- Jean Shepherd

#New York #Manhattan #Born

Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it.
-- Joe Elliott

#Manhattan #Beats #Bigs

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

#Philadelphia #Manhattan #Brooklyn

Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self.
-- Jonathan Lethem

#Self #Might #Manhattan

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.
-- Julian Casablancas

#War #Manhattan #Elements

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.
-- Jurgen Habermas

#Cities #Three #Manhattan

What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.
-- Jurgen Habermas

#Icons #Target #Manhattan

My own fashion sense has been influenced by 'We'll Take Manhattan.' It's gotten a little better.
-- Karen Gillan

#Fashion #Manhattan #Littles

My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan .
-- Kool Moe Dee

#Perspective #Different #Manhattan

In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.
-- Kool Moe Dee

#Queens #Different #Manhattan

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.
-- Laura Linney

#Upper East Side #Manhattan #Sides

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
-- Laura Linney

#Father #Actresses #Manhattan

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
-- Le Corbusier

#New York #Cities #Manhattan

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
-- Leonard Cohen

#Manhattan #Berlin #Firsts

I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.]
-- Lise Meitner

#Bombs #Manhattan #Scientist

Mumbai is like Manhattan. Theres a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
-- Madhuri Dixit

#Pace #Thrill #Manhattan

Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic.
-- Mariel Hemingway

#Men #Manhattan #World

Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.
-- Mario Batali

#Relax #Michigan #Manhattan

Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not high tech.
-- Meg Cabot

#School #Manhattan #Speech

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.
-- Michael Bergin

#Gone #Manhattan #Models

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

#Dream #Power #Manhattan

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.
-- Noah Baumbach

#Manhattan #Tourists #Driven

Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. Its also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower.
-- Norman Foster

#People #Manhattan #Want

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.
-- Peter Bart

#New York #Manhattan #Grew

sometimes gossip is by far the most reliable source of information about yourself and all your friends, especially in Manhattan. I always say why trust myself when gossip can tell moi the real truth about moi?
-- Plum Sykes

#Real #Gossip #Manhattan

As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.
-- Preet Bharara

#Worry #Manhattan #United States

In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
-- Quentin Crisp

#Actors #Manhattan #Stage

I love living in Brooklyn. Originally I moved there because I could enjoy a bigger space for less money than I would ever get in Manhattan.
-- Raquel Zimmermann

#Space #Brooklyn #Manhattan

Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, hasbeen respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.
-- Rem Koolhaas

#Self #Hatred #Manhattan

Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan's architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion.
-- Rem Koolhaas

#Culture #Manhattan #Splendor

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.
-- Rem Koolhaas

#Manhattan #Disaster #Accumulation

There is a woman who swam around Manhattan, and I asked her, why? She said, it hadn't ever been done before. Well, she didn't have to do that. If she wanted to something no one had ever done before, all she had to do was vacuum my apartment.
-- Rita Rudner

#Done #Vacuums #Manhattan

Manhattan is where America began.
-- Russell Shorto

#America #Manhattan

Have you ever thought about the grid of Manhattan?' It's like...a metaphor for life. You think you have the freedom to walk anywhere. But in fact... you are strictly controlled. Up or down. Left or right. Nothing in between. No other options.' Life should be like an open space...you should be able to walk in whatever direction you choose.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Thinking #Space #Manhattan

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
-- Tea Leoni

#Manhattan #Sometimes #Feels

I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that the energy is very vibrant. Everywhere you look there is something happening.
-- Theo James

#Manhattan #Brooklyn #Energy

I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.
-- Theophilus London

#Dad #Clothes #Manhattan

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
-- Val Kilmer

#Manhattan #Circumstances

When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect, basically a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.
-- Doug Liman

#Thinking #Play #Manhattan

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

#People #Parent #Manhattan

And one has eaten and one walks, past the magazines with nudes and the posters for bullfight and the Manhattan Storage Warehouse, which they'll soon tear down.
-- Frank O'Hara

#Past #Tears #Manhattan

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

#Night #Sky #Manhattan

I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.
-- Morten Tyldum

#School #Calling #Manhattan

The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do the work, rather than counting on some stranger in Manhattan to do it for him.
-- Richard North Patterson

#Manhattan #Flaws #Stranger

During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known.
-- Frederick Reines

#Years #Manhattan #Research