Quotes About New York

The gruff, gold-hearted Brooklyn guys who won't hesitate to help someone out. The way New Yorkers pull together when they need to.

These stories date from my Honorable Discharge from the Army at the end of World War II. Their order is, to the best of my memory, chronological and the most embarrassingly immature pieces have been dropped. These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.

I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.

Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or even Texas. It's coming from a place in Kansas called the Cosmosphere.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

The best thing about being in New York is the people, and you get to walk everywhere.

I have nothing against change or evolution, and I'm not one of those people who wants the city to be what it was 40 years ago or whatever, because that's not what New York is, really.

If I were to run for something, it would be something in New York, on the executive side.

Everyone's expectation of New York is so big, and then you go, 'Oh, it really is like no other place on Earth!'

In New York, the expectation seems to be that everyone will play his absolute hardest, be ultra-competitive, do anything necessary to win.

It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.

You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year.

I came to New York late; I was already past 30.

For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera.

Any society that could come here could pick up the lights from New York. What should we do about that? Should we darken New York from now until the last human expires? Would we want to turn off all the radars at JFK airport?

I love just being at Lincoln Center - it's so New York! Those fountains!

I am so grateful for my experience at Lincoln Center working to help relocate New York's largest media event - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.

I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.

I'm from New York. I was born in Long Island.

I used to do a show in New York that was loosely based around celebrity impersonations. I know what it takes to embody someone.

I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.