New York Quotes - Page 9

• Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night. Its like musical chairs except everybody sat down around 1964.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Humorous, Night

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• I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.158, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

  Anais Nin

  Animal, Missing, Mind

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• New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Towers, Soap, Whiskey

  The New York Times, November 27, 1955.

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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

  Manhattan, Pavement, Soil

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• All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Humanity, Treasure, Essentials

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• A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.

  Stephen Birmingham

  Cities, People, Great Men

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• I think New York has the most diverse and best quality representation of so many different cuisines at all levels.

  Bobby Flay

  Thinking, Quality, Different

  "New York restaurants are a world of good". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. May 31, 2011.

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• Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York.

  Anais Nin

  Two, Paris, Spirit

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• New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

  Anais Nin

  Cities, Jazz, Animated

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• The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.

  Marya Mannes

  Voice, Diversity, Feels

  Marya Mannes (1961). “The New York I Know”

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• Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

  Andy Warhol

  Hard Work, Cities, Tree

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• The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

  Murray Kempton

  Games, People, Faces

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• My favorite thing of all time is a New York City when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.

  Idina Menzel

  Cities, Parks, Favorites Things

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• I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

  John F. Kennedy

  Thinking, Media, Intelligence

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• New York is the last true city.

  Toni Morrison

  Cities, Lasts

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• What I like about New York City is nobody cares. If they do, they don't ever approach. They just give you a 'What's up?' and that's it.

  Chaske Spencer

  Cities, Giving, Care

  "'New moon' Werewolf Chaske Spencer takes vacation from 'Twilight'" by Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. January 7, 2010.

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• Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Donald E. Westlake (2014). “Dancing Aztecs”, p.12, BASTEI LÜBBE

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• A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at.

  Ezra Pound

  Animal, Rome, Vigor

  "Patria Mia".

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• Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.

  James T. Walsh

  Safety, Vulnerable, Poor

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• I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

  Sara Gilbert

  Thinking, Cities, Theatre

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• New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

  Brendan Behan

  Funny, Spiritual, Humorous

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• No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Reflection, Pigs, Long

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.4529, Delphi Classics

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• To start with, there's the alien accent. "Tree" is the number between two and four. "Jeintz" is the name of the New York professional football team. A "fit" is a bottle measuring seven ounces less than a quart. This exotic tongue has no relationship to any of the approved languages at the United Nations, and is only slightly less difficult to master than Urdu.

  Fletcher Knebel

  Football, Team, Names

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• Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Self, Cities

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