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Quotes About New York

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.
~ Norah Jones
I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.
~ Norman Jewison
The Pontiff has instructed me to convey his concern at the addition of psychedelics to the composition of the communion host in the Archdiocese of New York
~ Norman Spinrad
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
~ O. Henry
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
~ O. Henry
To really dig Brother Bootsie, his trials and tribulations, you'd have to see Harlem from the sidewalk. Everyone in Harlem had trials and tribulations because everyone was colored. Or almost everyone…But being colored, even in an enlightened northern burg like New York, could be a drag.
~ Unknown
Welcome to New York,' said the sign. [...] We got our luggage from the carousel and went to queue in the taxi rank outside the arrivals hall. [...] As we waited, this massive yellow car drove by. It must have had nineteen or twenty doors on it. 'I knew the cars here were big,' I slurred, 'but not that big!' 'It's a limousine, you idiot,' said Tony [Iommi].
~ Ozzy Osbourne
I think you ought to go to New York or Chicago or San Francisco or any city with character and vitality. You should go to work. This place is no good for you, Randy. The air is like soup and the people are like noodles. You're vegetating. I don't want a vegetable. I want a man.' " - Lib McGovern
~ Pat Frank
Auntie Mame sat decoratively on a Louis XIV love seat and discussed the heat, the humidity, how the climate was changing from year to year in New York,
~ Patrick Dennis
First of all there is Blue. Later there is White, and then there is Black, and before the beginning there is Brown. Brown broke him in, Brown taught him the ropes, and when Brown grew old, Blue took over. That is how it begins. The place is New York, the time is the present, and neither one will ever change.
~ Paul Auster
It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will be the fourth. But nothing is certain.
~ Paul Auster
The place is New York, the time is the present, and neither one will ever change.
~ Paul Auster
Buying almost up to America's entrance into the war in December 1942, the New York division shipped out the last purchases within a few days of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
~ Unknown
Ross sounded slightly defensive. 'No.' 'We've been a bit busy,' said Sefton. 'Paris is quite something. Cork I didn't really understand. Northampton is kind of . . . cute. Barnsley is delightful. New York is exactly what you'd expect.
~ Unknown
Si vivre dans les villes est une folie, au moins New York est-il une folie qui en vaut la peine.
~ Paul Morand
Nightlife is not for sissies, except of course for career sissies; an evening out requires at least a full day of minute preparation. . . . People move to New York to invent themselves, and nightclubs provide a runway for the results. It's easy to spend twenty hours per day slaving in a Pennsylvania coal mine or threshing some Nebraska oat crop; going out in New York is work.
~ Paul Rudnick
The scam boggles the mind when we consider that three of the top officers of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York publicly supported Bolshevism – Sanders, Peabody and William Boyce Thompson.
~ Unknown
I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.
~ Paula Radcliffe
The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.
~ Pete Hamill
New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it's not, it's like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they're one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.
~ Peter Cameron
Still influenced by his university days in the lab, Steffens hoped that his reporting would produce "facts of scientific value" on labor issues in New York.
~ Unknown