logo

Quotes About New York

But there is something very nice about coming to New York and how everyone smiles - even if they don't mean it. When I go back home to London and say hello to people, they look at me like I'm crazy.
~ Sophie Cookson
I loved 'Just Kids' by Patti Smith.
~ Carrie Brownstein
I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast corner. It is to never ever make a smooth entrance, always to get caught looking lost on the street.
~ Sloane Crosley
In New York, I can be a little edgier - I'll wear sneakers, combat boots, jeans. In L.A., I don't go as far. I find myself taking more of a risk when it comes to style in New York.
~ La La Anthony
The punditry snicker, the politicians sneer, and the editorialists scoff, but the American people speak and Donald J. Trump rises - commandingly so - confounding the powerful institutions of Washington D.C. and New York and earning him the ire of both.
~ Kayleigh McEnany
I'm from New York, so I'm simultaneously a snob and will also eat any pizza you put in front of me.
~ Andy Grammer
My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes,' was nominated for a number of book awards, one of which was The Quill Award, and they had it in New York at the Natural History Museum.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The New York world is definitely geared toward fashion. So many people work in the fashion industry, photography, all sorts of satellite businesses that have to do with it, so there's no way that it can't affect you, and it just kind of makes you think with more of a fashion edge.
~ Chris March
I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.
~ Ani DiFranco
One good and bad thing about New York is there's so much exciting stuff and so many people doing something interesting. I actually find in New York that you become more careerist and more focused on what's the newest, hippest thing.
~ Mike Mills
In New York, the drummers rush for a reason - because there's so much energy crackling through everything in that city and so many collisions at a highly accelerated rate.
~ Kurt Elling
I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
~ Olivier Theyskens
I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.
~ Lapo Elkann
The largest Martian canyon, Mariner Valley, which is probably the largest canyon in the solar system, is so vast that, if placed on North America, it would extend from New York City to Los Angeles.
~ Michio Kaku
Ley Seca no tuvo ningún efecto perceptible en la demanda de cerveza, vino y licores; especialmente en Nueva York, donde se estimaba que las 16.000 tabernas que existían en la ciudad antes de la aprobación de la Ley Volstead habían sido reemplazadas por 32.000 bares clandestinos.
~ Mike Dash
The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with a sudden wondrous poetry. ... Unintentional beauty. Yes. Another way of putting it might be 'beauty by mistake.
~ Milan Kundera
The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with a sudden wondrous poetry.
~ Milan Kundera
Perhaps New York's unintentional beauty is much richer and more varied than the excessively strict and composed beauty of human design. But it's not our European beauty. It's an alien world.
~ Milan Kundera
Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
Sometimes it's summer camp on location. So it's nice to have a little New York community of people you love.
~ Paul Dano
I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.
~ Penelope Cruz
I love New York so much; I could never live anywhere else, and ESPECIALLY not in my hometown.
~ Princess Superstar
New York is a special place; it's a city that I love.
~ Rafael Nadal
I feel that love. I feel that energy. I always felt that energy when I'm playing in New York.
~ Rafael Nadal