New-york-city Quotes

I had no concept of what life at the Chelsea Hotel would be like when we checked in, but I soon real...

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

New York!" he said. "That's not a place, it's a dream.

New York is a sucked orange.

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I ca...

His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they l...

The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in...

Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.

New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theate...

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is...

I'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule.

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight ...

If this fails to convince, I being out my secret weapon, announcing with portentous deliberation tha...

I waited in vain for someone like me to stand up and say that the only thing those of us who don't b...

New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the w...

People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life...

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off t...

One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing S...

The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense,...

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in t...

It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, h...

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

New York, of course, is to be in endless surreal situations where a fifty-thousand dollar, gun-metal...

[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, ...

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a hou...

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-h...

Give me such shows--give me the streets of Manhattan!

Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was...

There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and h...

You don’t come to live here [New York City] unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own ...

You don’t come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn’t a ...

Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you reme...

You haven't lived until you died in New York.

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

If you think you’ll find intellectual stimulation, you’re thinking of another era. The conversations...

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I'v...

In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been mad...

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

He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extingui...

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when...

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody woul...

She had the most beautiful awkwardness

In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City.New York is the city of envy, office work, and...

I'm here because I was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else, but I don't know about you.

As if these daily humiliations and sacrifices mean something, are tallied by the ones who keep the b...

You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

Cherish your old apartments and pause for a moment when you pass them. Pay tribute, for they are the...

Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us.

The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.

New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

Why should anyone else have it easy. Spoken like a true New Yorker.

You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place ...

One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a w...

One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a w...

I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City.

New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a dru...

How about a drop of something to cut the phlegm?Why don't you stay sober today?We didn't come to New...

It was generally agreed that a coffin-size studio on Avenue D was preferable to living in one of the...

This was the year he rode the subway to the ends of the city, two hundred miles of track.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that some...

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillac's, and the beggars die of malnutrit...

I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they've ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn't k...

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds ...

new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspi...

New York is the concentrate of art and commerce and sport and religion and entertainment and finance...

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should co...

It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage pile...

In the 1970s in New York everyone slept till noon.

I was lucky to live in New York when it was dangerous and edgy and cheap enough to play host to youn...

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

...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy...

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

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. And just as i...

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wi...

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - bec...

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enou...

Our grief is not a cry for war."That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what bombi...

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does

To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New...

Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes...

New York: A third-rate Babylon.

Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy wo...

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks diff...

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

The ideal of quiet and of genteel retirement, in 1835, was found in Washington Square, where the Doc...

Mrs. Almond lived much farther up town, in an embryonic street with a high number—a region where the...

Some three or four years before this Dr. Sloper had moved his household gods up town, as they say in...

My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American.