Fifth Avenue Quotes

• I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Fifty

  "E=MO²". Comedy Album, 1985.

  79 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Yoga, Fake

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.

  Anthony Trollope

  New York, Thinking, Avenues

  Anthony Trollope (2008). “North America”, p.208, Applewood Books

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Art, Snakes, Media

  Song: Poses, Album: Poses, 2001

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.

  Rick Riordan

  New York, Central Park, Giants

  "Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian". Book by Rick Riordan, May 5, 2009.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fall, Kids, Eye

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Traffic, Walks, Cab

  4 Copy quote

• I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York.

  Sting

  Travel, New York, Coffee

  27 Copy quote

• New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them - this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, New York, Air

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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Go to Lord & Taylor on Fifth Avenue, I think it's the eighth floor, and it's just a department called 'Woman.' It's rather devastating. You've never seen such hideous clothes in your entire life. I mean, it's simply appalling. Thank God there are no windows on that floor, because if I were a size 18, I'd throw myself right out the window [after seeing those clothes]. It's insulting what these designers do to these women.

  Tim Gunn

  Mean, Thinking, Clothes

  "Tim Gunn: Fashion Seems To End At A Size 12" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2013.

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Light, Oedipus

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces". Book by Joseph Campbell, 1949.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off my view of the sky. . . . Flying got into my soul instantly but the answer as to why must be found somewhere back in the mystic maze of my birth and childhood and the circumstances of my earlier life. Whatever I am is elemental and the beginnings of it all have their roots in Sawdust Road. I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and stars.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Stars, Cutting, Views

  23 Copy quote

• If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Long Ago, Envy, Beverly Hills

  5 Copy quote

• She's quite skinny, like me, but nice skinny. Roller-skate skinny. I watched her once from the window when she was crossing over Fifth Avenue to go to the park, and that's what she is, roller-skate skinny. You'd like her.

  J. D. Salinger

  Nice, Parks, Like Her

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up Fifth Avenue once a year... a Cuban parade or a Puerto Rican parade - many other countries. So they really don't forget.

  Tom Wolfe

  Loyalty, Country, Years

  4 Copy quote

• Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.

  Anna Godbersen

  Growing, Minutes, Parlor

  4 Copy quote

• Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Art, Important, Crime

  International Herald Tribune, October 01, 1990.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think there is a core of Trump supporters who, as he said during the campaign, he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue. They are not rattled by anything they have seen. They're sticking with him, so they're happy to sort of see him back out there being Trump.

  Ruth Marcus

  Thinking, Campaigns, Trump

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Art, Ideas, House

  14 Copy quote

• There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding.

  Jules Romains

  Fashion, New York, Block

  7 Copy quote

• One of the particular things that impressed me was one visitor [of NAACP] - I think it was - it wasn't the Prime Minister of England. We were located then on 14th Street and Fifth Avenue, up several flights of rickety stairs, and he came all the way up those stairs to see Walter [White], largely because of certain kinds of impact, I think, that the Association seemingly was having.

  Ella Baker

  Thinking, Impact, White

  Source: www.crmvet.org

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Donald Trump is not stupid. He knows exactly what he's saying. And he's just saying out there - I mean, forget about Muslims. He said I could go down on Fifth Avenue in New York and shoot someone in the face and people - and the voters will have no problem with it. This transcends any kind of religion and any kind of belief. This is actually an offense and attack on human values. He's just saying out there I will shoot people in the face and people wouldn't care.

  Bassem Youssef

  New York, Stupid, Mean

  "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I could stand in the middle Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters.

  Donald Trump

  Voters, Middle, Avenues

  "As Caucus Day Nears, Trump And Cruz Make Big Push In Iowa". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, Don Gonyea, www.npr.org. January 23, 2016.

  164 Copy quote

  Show source

• My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Winter, Snow, Storm

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue. I had to do the Calvin Klein show without the tooth.

  Kate Moss

  Hate, Roots, Teeth

  Interview with Glenn O’Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2008.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source