Quotes About New York

I was born in Mount Kisco, New York-although my family was living in the Bronx at the time. That's just where I decided to be born.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

The best New York in the world is driving down the [Pacific Coast Highway] listening to the Velvet Underground. That's the best time I've ever been to New York.

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

I just would like to spend more time in New York City.

My favorite New York memory is that blizzard in '96. I get chills thinking about it. It's my favorite time here - call me crazy. I'm from Canada, and it's very cold up there.

I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.

I've had an interesting time adjusting to New York. I'm from California and I'm very much a California girl. I feel lucky to officially say I'm bi-coastal.

Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.

My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time.

New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.

The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with.

I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time.

My problem with being in New York City is that you really can't make a living as a comedian. You can, but you have to also take writing jobs, which means less stage time.

When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.

I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

James Elly Kleinman, a cousin of mine was seriously ill two or three weeks ago, in New York, but is well now. The report of my illness grew out of his illness, the report of my death was an exaggeration.

We started westward from New York in midsummer, with Major Pond to manage the platform-business as far as the Pacific. It was warm work, all the way, and the last fortnight of it was suffocatingly smoky, for in Oregon and British Columbia the forest fires were raging. We had an added week of smoke at the seaboard, where we were obliged to wait awhile for our ship. She had been getting herself ashore in the smoke, and she had to be docked and repaired.

Heat, money, sex and fever -this is it, this is New York, this is first class, this is the sharp end.