Quotes About New York

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.

A car is useless in New York essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired you've had a headache since you arrived but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And those extra ten years I'd like to spend in New York.

Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley.

I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.

In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.

In 1979 the New York Times reported that in many {New York Subway} stations, the signs are so confusing that one is tempted to wish they were not there at all - a wish that is, in fact, granted in numerous stations and on all too many of the subway cars themselves.

He was one of those people in New York who was purported to "know everybody". "Knowing everybody" is a phrase that denotes not having many relations with people but having relations with a few people generally thought to be significant and powerful.

It encapsulates so neatly the lesson of expectation and reality that it could serve as a parable. The fact that tomatoes are good is beside the point. If you think you're getting an apple, a tomato will revolt you. That New York should be nicknamed the Big Apple, that an apple is the fruit of humankind's first error and the expulsion from paradise, that America and paradise have been linked and confused ever since Europeans first hit its shores, makes the story reverberate as myth.

but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that fiction, we make it partly real.

I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket.

The New York fashion scene is crazy, madness, but I love the energy.

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

Way to go, New York. One people. One planet. One love.

I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York... Is that the Big One I hear in the background? Bye, you lizard scum! Bye!

I love traffic. It's fantastic. New York traffic is so relaxing.

But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.

I love New York. It's kind of perfect. I'm in New York part of the time and in L.A. part of the time. That's always been a goal, to be bicoastal in a real way.

In New York, you can just wake up and everything sorts itself out. I love that, not having a plan.

NEW YORK! I [love] U! You're OFFICIALLY the coolest place on the planet!

I like the normal things of life: I like the Mets, and the Celtics, and the N.Y. Rangers. I like to watch C-Span; I love Costco.

I love Edith Wharton. And I love old New York. Anything to do with New York.

I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat.