Manhattan Quotes - Page 3

• Manhattan is where America began.

  Russell Shorto

  America

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• I jumped up in the bubble, yo kid where are you? (114 between Manhattan and Morningside Avenue) This happened just right out the blue

  Big Noyd

  Rap, Kids, Blue

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• A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. The island of Manhattan is without any doubt the greatest human concentrate on earth, the poem whose magic is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain elusive.

  E. B. White

  Islands, Race, Cities

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• When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

  David Duchovny

  Kids, World, Grew Up

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• I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.

  J. Cole

  Kids, Cities, Downtown

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• It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Blow, Mind

  "Panel on Implications of Sen.Bayh's Announcement He Won't Run for Re-election". "Special Report With Bret Baier", www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2010.

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• The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Heart, Cities, Forever

  Address in Support of Religious Tolerance and New York City Mosque, delivered 3 August 2010, Governors Island, New York

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• I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.

  Twyla Tharp

  Mirrors, White, Dancer

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting the shining banks of light that were Manhattan and Brooklyn on either side.

  Cassandra Clare

  Light, Bridges, Rivers

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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• Dear Isabelle, Alec is about to have a nervous breakdown. If you do not immediately desist planing my wedding to your brother, I will come back to Manhattan and blow up the Institute. I will turn Church into a man-eating beast who will rampage through the streets of Manhattan, stepping on mundanes. And I will make you fat. Love, Magnus

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Blow, Men

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• Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean it's and unfriendly place -- just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I'm a social creature but there are times and places you just don't want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being.

  Laura Anne Gilman

  Morning, Mean, Mind

  Laura Anne Gilman (2011). “Pack of Lies”, p.65, LUNA

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• Justin [Di Cioccio] was [at Laguardia School of Arts]. He later took over at Manhattan. But I knew Justin through the McDonald's band, which at the time I was finishing high school and starting college, I got involved with. I was not that heavily involved with the school at MSM my first year there. I took a semester off to start my 2nd year. Took classes I felt like taking during my third semester, but by the start of my third year, September of '86, they began the undergraduate jazz program and I joined that program.

  Jon Gordon

  Art, School, College

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• I love Rebel Rebel in Manhattan's West Village for vinyl, but record stores are hard to come by these days. I almost don't even use iTunes. I mostly use music subscription services. But I'll go into Rebel Rebel once a month or so and buy everything I love on vinyl.

  Jason Sellards

  Love, Age, Rebel

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• When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

  Susan Orlean

  Sunday, People, Hobbies

  "On the Wing" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 8, 2011.

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• Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Littles, Tiny

  Interview with David Muir, abcnews.go.com. September 23, 2011.

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• A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.

  Dylan Moran

  Growing Up, War, Men

  "Dylan Moran Makes Sentences of Things". Interview With J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 13, 2013.

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• No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses!

  Moby

  Facts, Driving, Folks

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• A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

  Moby

  Scary, Brooklyn, Strange

  "Moby Discusses His ISSUEs". Interview With Nell Alk, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Loss, Terrorist Groups, Down And

  "Q & A / Kevin Mitnick / Ex-hacker shares secrets of deception / Mitnick says 'social engineers' play big role in cyber attacks". Interview With Verne Kopytoff, www.sfgate.com. October 28, 2002.

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• So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked. Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate.

  Rick Riordan

  Empires, Problem, Building

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• The horse could not do without Manhattan. It drew him like a magnet, like a vacuum, like oats, or a mare, or an open, never-ending, tree-lined road.

  Mark Helprin

  Horse, Oats, Tree

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• I looked across the river to Manhattan. It was a great view. When Sadie and I had first arrived at Brooklyn House, Amos had told us that magicians tried to stay out of Manhattan. He said Manhattan had other problems--whatever that meant. And sometimes when I looked across the water, I could swear I was seeing things. Sadie laughed about it, but once I thought I saw a flying horse. Probably just the mansion's magic barriers causing optical illusions, but still, it was weird.

  Rick Riordan

  Horse, Views, Rivers

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• Juno: "The heroes of olympus must unite! After your victory over kronos in manhattan...well I fear that wounded jupiter's self-esteem." Percy: Cause I was right and he was wrong" Juno: "He should be used to that after being married to me so long, but alas.

  Rick Riordan

  Self Esteem, Hero, Long

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• If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Travel, Home, Men

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• Manhattan was a no-man's land, empty, an unofficial demilitarized zone between Partials and the human survivors. No one was supposed to be here, not because it was forbidden but because it was dangerous. If something happened to you out here, either side could get you, and neither side could protect you.

  Dan Wells

  Men, Land, Survivor

  Dan Wells (2013). “Fragments (Partials, Book 2)”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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