Manhattan Quotes

• Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it.

  Joe Elliott

  Beats, Bigs, Fingers

  "How to travel like a rock star". "Celebrity travel" with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com.

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• Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Queens, Wall, College

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.563, Open Road Media

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• He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Black And White, Cities

  "Fictional character: Isaac Davis". Comedy, Drama, Romance, www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

  Le Corbusier

  New York, Cities, Vehement

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• He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.

  Lewis Mumford

  New York, Pavement, Soil

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• There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Strong, People, Spirit

  "You've got to have faith". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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• It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New York. I thoroughly detest New York, though I have to go there very often.... Have you ever noticed that no American writer of any consequence lives in Manhattan? Dreiser tried it (after many years in the Bronx), but finally moved to California.

  H. L. Mencken

  New York, Years, California

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• I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream.

  Diego Della Valle

  Dream, New York, Bridges

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2011.

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• Paul Ryan is speaker of the house and that - that is up to members of the caucus. Donald Trump is not running for a congressman from Manhattan where he would actually vote on the speaker. But I appreciate the good wishes that we're actually going to be the next president of the United States and that we'll have to work with the speaker.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Running, Appreciate, House

  "Anderson Cooper Interview With Kellyanne Conway Says Hillary Clinton Has Been Fighting For Herself For 30 Years". Interview With Anderson Cooper, lybio.net.

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• It's a luxury being able to work every day in the streets of Manhattan. It doesn't get much cooler than that. When you move to New York, that's exactly what you dream of. And I'm doing it.

  Kelli Giddish

  Dream, New York, Moving

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• Martha Stewart showed up at Manhattan FBI Headquarters to have her finger prints taken and pose for a mug shot. Then Martha explained how to get ink off your fingers using seltzer water and lemon juice.

  Conan O'Brien

  Taken, Water, Lemon Juice

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• Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

  Alfred Kazin

  Running, New York, Ocean

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• I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.

  Woody Allen

  Mad, Surface, Impulse

  "Fictional character: Isaac Davis". Manhattan, www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• My analyst warned me, but you were so beautiful I got another analyst.

  Woody Allen

  Beautiful, Analysts

  "Manhattan". www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

  O. Henry

  New York, Greatness, Gentleman

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.660, Delphi Classics

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• So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Mexican, House, Citizens

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• Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Cities, Three, Century

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• Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

  Tea Leoni

  Sometimes, Feels, Particular

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.

  Toby Young

  Thinking, People, Three

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• That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

  Gore Vidal

  President, Loyal, Retainers

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.103, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.

  Ethan Suplee

  Hippie, Home, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.

  James Van Der Beek

  New York, Past, Cities

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Cities, Design, Needs

  "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.

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• I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.

  Melissa Joan Hart

  School, Kids, Cities

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• I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

  Peter Bart

  New York, Grew Up, Theater

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