New York Quotes - Page 6

• Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

  Johnny Carson

  Humorous, Taken, Together

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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

  Greatness, Gentleman, Dresses

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

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• Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've got to go. So I went.

  Jack Kerouac

  Spring, Land, Rivers

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.317, Penguin

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• New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

  Christopher Morley

  Cities, Literature, Rehabilitation

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• New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Money, Artist, Race

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• Storing your car in New York is safer than entering it in a demolition derby. But not much.

  Daniel S. Greenberg

  Car, Entering, Demolition

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• I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hungary, old Russia, old France, old Italy? In Europe you're trying to copy America, you're almost American. But here you'll find Europeans who immigrated a hundred years ago - and we haven't spoiled them. Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York. Because the whole world's in New York.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Witty, Real, Smart

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• New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Crucible, Easy, Enough

  Ford Madox Ford (1927). “New York Essays”

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• The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be somebody.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Ego, Lust, Flesh

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• New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.

  Duke Ellington

  Dollars, Cadillacs, Rich

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.

  O. Henry

  Feet, Trying, Stuff

  O. Henry (2007). “41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition”, p.168, Penguin

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• Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.

  John Updike

  Trying, Bottles

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• Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven thousand people-more intimate experience than I found when racing in track. New York is the marathon that all the biggest stars want to win, but has also been the stage for an array of human stories more vast than any other sporting event.

  Grete Waitz

  Running, Stars, Winning

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• Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.

  Helen Keller

  Dream, Real, Taken

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• Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.

  Walt Whitman

  Light, Ohio, Land

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.534, NYU Press

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• 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.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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• New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  World

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

  Greta Gerwig

  Cities, Nyc, Excited

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• At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Reflection, Night, Glowing

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• Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

  Jerry Rubin

  Cities, Theater, Type

  Jerry Rubin (2014). “Growing (Up) at 37”, p.15, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

  Barbara Kruger

  Cities, Culture, Los Angeles

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

  Le Corbusier

  Cities, Manhattan, Vehement

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• Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

  Angela Carter

  Sex, Men, Cities

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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• New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Funny, Humorous, Hell

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• I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?

  Ayn Rand

  Sunset, Men, Sight

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.423, Penguin

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