Quotes About New York

I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

I like driving; I don't drive since I live in New York. I don't have an opportunity to drive, like, ever.

I've never come from a lot of money. Going to college in New York was already a financial struggle for both my family and me, so to drop out and immediately put my faith in my drag career was a huge risk to take.

I was an actor in New York, dude.

You know, MMA doesn't need New York, New York needs MMA. And I say that with all due respect to New York.

I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

I truly have New York embedded in my blood.

When you're in New York, there's women galore. At the end of the day, when I'm by myself or even, at times, when there was a woman next to me, I was feeling alone. It was not the same as it is with my wife. The experience is not the same; the time is not the same.

When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.

Playing in New York, there's a lot of pressure, but me and some Europeans like the pressure.

He now read that in November 1968 Richard Nixon as president-elect had taken two floors at the Pierre as temporary headquarters for himself and his staff. The hotel was Nixon's favorite in New York, and he occupied the penthouse suite on the thirty-ninth floor.

It has seven hundred rooms and suites, three hundred of which are apartments owned by the cream of New York-wealthy widows and business tycoons

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for that reason I prefer its horror to this privileged beauty, its enslavement to the freedoms which remain local and privileged and very particularized, and which do not represent a genuine antithesis.

Someone misdirected you [...] Most writers in New York don't do much writing. They spend their time talking and drinking bootleg liquor. That's what we do, at any rate.

I'm six. 1974. Somebody's New York apartment, white rug, many people. They say "schmatte." They say "schmooze," they say "schwarze." They wear bead necklaces, interesting belts, plastic white sunglasses propped on their heads. Nixon's resigning on black-and-white TV. He says nobody gave him anything except a dog.

New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum's rush.

In 1973, the New York Yankees became the first team to use a designated hitter (often referred to as the "DH").

Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.

Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.

There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.

I was living in a house in the West Village of New York and trying to be Carrie Bradshaw. I wrote a whole 5 pages about this character who wasn't going to wear high heels because it was not empowering. I've read that article 1000 times, it's so boring! I was writing really cliched women's stuff which is exactly what I didn't want to write.