New York Quotes - Page 3

• There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

  Don Herold

  Cities, Sophistication, City Life

  Don Herold (1926). “There ought to be a law--”

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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

  Years, California, Manhattan

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• New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.

  Isaac Stern

  Cities, Broken, World

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• Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

  Albert Camus

  Insomnia, Islands, Iron

  Albert Camus (1987). “American journals”

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• New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

  Alistair Cooke

  Cities In The World, Village, Collections

  Alistair Cooke (1951). “One man's America”, New York, Knopf

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• I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman.

  Woody Allen

  Mother, Father, Emotional

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

  David Letterman

  Moving, Cities, Numbers

  "Late Show with David Letterman", February 9, 1984.

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• If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Rome

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• New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature, forced by the artificiality of their environment.

  Ernest Gruening

  Children, Cities, Cynical

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• New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion.

  Joan Didion

  Cities, Notion, Mere

  1967 'Goodbye To All That', collected in Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968).

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• Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Made, Mark

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.302, Univ of California Press

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• When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.

  Neil Simon

  Interesting, People, Degrees

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• First New York was a sort of provincial capital, bigger and richer than Manchester or Marseilles, but not much different in its essential spirit. Then, after the war, it became one among half a dozen world cities. Today it has the appearance of standing alone, as the center of culture in the part of the world that still tries to be civilized.

  Malcolm Cowley

  War, Cities, Trying

  MALCOLM COWLEY (1967). “Think Back on Us”

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• That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

  Cyril Connolly

  Men, Economic, Stonehenge

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• I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to march with those people takes a lot of compromise on my end.

  David Cross

  Believe, People, Causes

  "Let America Laugh". Interview with Dan Hoyle, www.alternet.org. January 1, 2004.

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• New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Exercise, Walking

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• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page

  Ted Koppel

  Pages, Fields, Looks

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• In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.

  Judith Stone

  Suicide, Women, Suicidal

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• There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.

  Amy Poehler

  Romantic, Two, Broke

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• I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

  Keren Ann

  Writing

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• When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, "I want you to emerge stronger from this." My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Patriotic, Cities, People

  "9/11 was 'worst day' and 'the best day'" by Rudy Giuliani, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 7, 2011.

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• It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can be found (with a great originality of its own).

  Henry James

  Paris, Growing, Way

  Henry James, Leon Edel (1987). “Henry James, Selected Letters”, p.184, Harvard University Press

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• New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.

  Art Garfunkel

  Differences, Mind, Dimes

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• The much heaves and palpitates. It is multidirectional and has a mayor.

  Donald Barthelme

  Mayors

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• If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York.

  Grace Kelly

  Return, Scenery, Using Me

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