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Quotes About New York

A move to MLS - you never know. New York or Los Angeles, you never know.
~ Romelu Lukaku
I never thought about moving to L.A.; I always wanted to be in New York. I moved there, and now I still have a kind of love affair with the city.
~ Holly Hunter
It's New York - it comes with it. If you can't deal with it, you leave. If you lose, they talk about you. When you win, they love you.
~ Stephon Marbury
I really have a love-hate relationship with New York. I will talk to New York and be like, 'You are so hard on me. You are so difficult to be around. Why?'
~ Pauline Chalamet
I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
~ Liev Schreiber
That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
~ Daniel Boulud
I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just don't feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too.
~ Blythe Danner
I'm obsessed with 'New York' magazine.
~ Jennifer Hyman
Right before I left New York, I had my manager tell me, 'You need to get a girl on your arm, or people will start talking.'
~ Sean Maher
I moved to New York when I was eight years old, in 1978. I grew up in Manhattan. I couldn't speak any English, and I had dyslexia, so it took me many years before I could read.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
My favorite elements of 'Start Talkin'' were those man-on-the-street pieces. I love shooting those. I was born in Manhattan, have lived in or around New York my entire life, and I feel like I'm in my element when doing those pieces.
~ Scott Rogowsky
The art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.
~ Don DeLillo
I'm a world citizen with a New York set of balls.
~ Don DeLillo
This was New York. Every living breathing genotype entered his cab at some point, day or night. And if this was an inflated notion, that was New York as well.
~ Don DeLillo
We're not gonna die We're not gonna die We're not gonna die, leading them in a chant, a mantra that was joyful and mock joyful at the same time because this is New York, New York and we want it both ways.
~ Don DeLillo
Aren't you going too far?" "I'm from New York.
~ Don DeLillo
How do you know so much?" Babette said. "I'm from New York.
~ Don DeLillo
Et puis aussi, c'était New York, où les gens ne posent pas de questions.
~ Don DeLillo
Alfonse invested everything he did with a sense of all-consuming purpose. He knew four languages, had photographic memory, did complex mathematics in his head. He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
~ Unknown
It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.
~ Donna Tartt
In New York, everything reminded me of my mother—every taxi, every street corner, every cloud that passed over the sun—but out in this hot mineral emptiness, it was as if she had never existed; I could not even imagine her spirit looking down on me. All trace of her seemed burned away in the thin desert air.
~ Donna Tartt
Would you have references?" "I'm awfully sorry but I haven't. I just arrived in New York, and don't know a soul. Except you." I smiled but she didn't smile back. She stood hesitating, and I said, "It's true that I'm an escaped convict, an active counterfeiter, and occasional murderer. And I howl during the full of the moon. But I'm neat.
~ Jack Finney
Granite contains a number of naturally occurring substances, one of them being that much-loved radioactive element uranium. Because of this, New York's Grand Central Station gives off more radiation than is permitted at a nuclear power station. Don't worry if you go there though, the rules about building nuclear power stations are extremely strict, and you're not going to come to any harm even if you lived your entire life in the station.
~ Jack Goldstein
York Mets (that year an expansion club) acquired
~ Jack Goldstein