Quotes About New York

This was what the old gangster in the California prison had been trying to describe to Elizabeth Waring. The tape-recorder team in New York had managed to stumble on a man who had never done anything for a living except kill people. He had been doing it for, say, twenty years, and he had gotten pretty good at it.

Jane reached Western New York in the dark. It had been a seven-hour drive, but she had stopped for meals and breaks, and then had taken time to sleep for two hours at a rest stop. The urgency she had been feeling since the night the ancient woman had come to her in her dream seemed to burn in her until she had worn herself out. Now she was feeling stronger.

Moving to New York was about reinvention. If you didn't want that, you stayed in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

If you want to be a cop, it's not for everybody, no question about it, but there's no place like New York City.

It's no secret that me and New York got history. It's no secret. This is no secret. It's already known.

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

I come from New York. It's busy. It's populated. It's noisy. It's loud.

I fall asleep to a movie every night! I don't have a go-to movie, but I like Netflix or whatever I can find. Usually, it's just noise in the background; I think it's damage from living in New York, where it's so noisy.

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.

I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan.

My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.

Barbecue is to North Carolina as the hot dog is to New York.

A lot of people from the Bay, especially musicians, feel like northern California is not the place where everything's poppin' off and not quite on the cutting edge artistically as New York or L.A. People from the Bay feel like they have something to prove, and I always love feeling like I have something to prove.

I feel like not knowing Joe Torre is a hole in my New York experience.

I'm not talking about any one team but everyone knows how I feel about New York. I really enjoyed my time there.

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

My earliest memories are at the Blue Note here in New York or backstage at different theatres or different clubs, dressing rooms.

There's nothin' wrong with the way men dress in New York!

I love New York audiences, because they're used to going to shows, and you really notice it. They laugh and applaud and do all the things that you want an audience to do.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

I've been to New York many times, and I've always noticed that there aren't that many French tucks around.

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.