Quotes About New York City

Moving to New York City and playing and listening with the wonderful music community that we have here has really been the guiding force of where I've arrived.

To be able to call myself a New York City based musician is just a pleasure and I still get a real kick out of it.

I had started out my grown-up life in New York City, but I couldn't figure out how to be an actor there. And so I had been a magazine illustrator instead.

I grew up on lovely Staten Island, which is the forgotten borough of New York City.

I lived in New York City for six years, and I was always amazed at how diverse everything was.

It'd be crazy to be an all-time great in New York City. That's a dream come true.

There's only one Broadway and that's in New York City.

I like going to the matinee. I like taking my daughter there. It's just my favorite place in the world. I go there after auditions. I lived in New York City, I would go to the theater right after because it clears your mind.

I was doing catalog work for a while at 14 and eventually, it was one of those days I was just moving around New York City and I got stopped by an MTV scout and I ended up doing a Jennifer Lopez look-a-like contest and I won that.

I moved from Huntsville, Alabama to New York City right out of high school. I was alone, scared, and had very little money.

New York City is so big with all the lights and the people and it just makes me feel like I'm living in a dream when I'm there.

My father had a shoe factory in a depressed and rough area of New York City called Williamsburg.

I lived in Manhattan for 12 years and grew up outside New York City, so that was definitely how I saw the center of the world.

It's weird, in New York City, we consider anything above Manhattan 'upstate.'

My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.

As a child, Chomsky was influenced by the radical Jewish intellectual culture in New York City, where he regularly visited newsstands and bookstores with anarchist literature. According to Chomsky, this was a "working class culture with working class values, solidarity, socialist values."4

It was bad enough to be swallowed up by the intrinsic anger of New York City traffic and its seemingly mad competition between cars, cabs, the ubiquitous delivery trucks, the kamikaze bike messengers and the always-in-a-damn hurry pedestrians.

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

I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City.

I love New York City for its energy. Pebble Beach, Carmel Beach and that all area, for its completely laid back energy. Paris for the charm, shopping and the glamour.

They were still out on the sidewalk of West Eighty-sixth Street, the taxi pulling way, when Louise put down her travel bag, raised both arms and declared herself in love with New York City. 'It's exactly as I imagined it!' She let her arms fall and looked out at the street, at the honking, halting parade of cars, headlights bright in the dusking air. She turned to Cora with glistening eyes. 'I've always known it, my whole life. This is where I'm meant to be.

Eleven-year-old Danny Crane had moved to Hawaii just weeks before. Ma had brought Danny to Hawaii to get him out of trouble, away from the crime and the rats and the dirty, dangerous streets of New York City.

When the New York City pension funds began investing in index funds in the mid-1970s, the New York Times, in an article entitled "Why Indexing Frightens Money Managers," quoted Dave H. Williams, then chairman of the investment committee of Mitchell Hutchins & Company: "It's an avenue for seeking mediocrity.

On January 24, 1998, a century-old tenement building still in use and located at 172 Stanton Street was demolished by the City of New York