Quotes About New York

Knicks fans are great. New York fans in general are awesome. They're passionate as hell, they know the sports, they know the game.

The Knicks were one of my favorite places to play - just the energy of the New York fans in general is amazing.

I know what New York is like when the Knicks are successful and there is nothing comparable.

I grew up as a kid and the Knicks were great.

The fans of New York are very knowledgeable about the game of basketball. They love their sports here.

Hong Kong has always been a dynamic and exciting and high-energy city, and it has that New York thing going on, and people here care about how they look.

I had worked as a runway model for six years in Korea before I flew to New York.

You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me.

I want to live New York City. Not live IN it, but live IT. I want to be alive right here, right now.

With equal intensity, she feared her New York life was the best of all possible worlds, and that once she left New York, the gates would come down and lock, and she'd be too feeble and parochial to ever be allowed to return.

Domingo, ese día en que haces todas esas cosas culturales en medio de la nieve mientras la gente casada se queda en la cama. Todas esas cosas culturales que enriquecen tu mente y al mismo tiempo te destrozan la vida porque ya nunca serás capaz de casarte con alguien que no sea de Nueva York.

Quieres saber por qué me sentí mal en realidad? En Nueva York el aborto no es ningún tabú, forma parte de la cultura, y aun así la ley del aborto no se aprobó hasta que fue demasiado tarde para cientos de chicas que los necesitaban al mismo tiempo que yo. ¿No podían haberla aprobado con carácter retroactivo y habernos enviado una disculpa escrita?

I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.

It's important to understand that, back in the mid-sixties, there were few, if any, New York bars where single women felt comfortable—bars in New York were mainly beer joints for men. And so, all of those stewardesses and models back then simply partied at, well, house parties. Stillman was about to change all that when he opened a bar called TGI Fridays, which welcomed both men and women, thus creating the first singles' bar—one that felt like a cocktail party.

The same year, Hasbro—which had soaked up Kenner years earlier—reactivated its option to produce action figures and issued a new line of Star Wars toys under the imprint "The Power of the Force." A manager at FAO Schwarz in New York was surprised to see that there were more adults than children buying the new line of toys—a

Arnolds' names should come up in conversation that summer. Benedict's family was established just across the border in Connecticut, and the former Miss Shippen—whose own family was extremely well connected—had been acquainted with many of the officers now in New York. Benedict Arnold's name might have even been something of a joke, at first, among the British. Here was an overly eager merchant–turned–major general who seemed

MERCHANTS' SHIRTSLEEVES While his name was being bandied around New York's most exclusive circles during his first weeks of command, Arnold was quite busy sending letters. Besides writing to Washington about his desire to increase the provisions and make improvements at the fort and composing letters about his need to learn the identity of spies, Arnold also found the time to send a letter to an American outpost, informing its members that a certain

had letters on his desk from his merchant-spy in New York regarding an officer from New York venturing toward West Point seemed wholly unconnected. Despite all the hints he received from 355, Woodhull, and Townsend, Tallmadge didn't connect the dots until it was almost too late.

When the sparks of revolution became the full-fledged flames of war in 1775, however, Rivington's shop was looted and burned by the Sons of Liberty, with some of his presses and typefaces being melted down for ammunition. He moved his family back to England for their own safety, then returned to New York in 1777, where he opened his businesses near Townsend's shop. While

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

The numbers seemed overwhelming. By the end of the summer, there were, in fact, four thousand more British soldiers in New York than the entire population of Philadelphia, America's largest city.

Settling in New York, de Zavala spent the next two years authoring a pair of well-received books, including a U.S. travelogue, Journey to the United States of North America, that's sometimes compared to Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.

radical violence was so deeply woven into the fabric of 1970s America that many citizens, especially in New York and other hard-hit cities, accepted it as part of daily life. As one New Yorker sniffed to the New York Post after an FALN attack in 1977, "Oh, another bombing? Who is it this time?

I want to share all of my New York with you, Melissa. My house, my friends, my life. It's not just about where you live, what you have. It's about who you are with. I know you get that, and I can't tell what it means to me.