Manhattan Quotes - Page 3

• Manhattan is where America began.

  Russell Shorto

  America

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• I jumped up in the bubble, yo kid where are you? (114 between Manhattan and Morningside Avenue) This happened just right out the blue

  Big Noyd

  Rap, Kids, Blue

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• At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.

  Chris Noth

  New York, Order, Law

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• I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.

  Julian Casablancas

  Thinking, Pockets, Bars

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• The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to be an author, in which case the novel will make you consider a more sensible profession-like being a rodeo clown, for example, or a crab-fisherman in the Bering Sea.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Book, Cutting, Sea

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• I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.

  Ana Ortiz

  New York, Cities, Uptown

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• Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.

  Calvin Trillin

  Father, Taken, Food

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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• Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Self, Hatred, Degrees

  "Intelligent Design" by Daniel Zalewski, www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2005.

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• There is a woman who swam around Manhattan, and I asked her, why? She said, it hadn't ever been done before. Well, she didn't have to do that. If she wanted to something no one had ever done before, all she had to do was vacuum my apartment.

  Rita Rudner

  Vacuums, Done, Said

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• It seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that there are an awful lot of people in Manhattan. And it's getting worse.

  Cynthia Heimel

  People, Awful, Seems

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• Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.

  Herb Caen

  Land, Cities, Two

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• My father built low- and moderate-income housing in Queens and Brooklyn. I learned a lot from him. But I went in a different direction. I built Trump Tower in Manhattan, the most luxurious building in the world. It's not going to be easy for my son, but maybe it shouldn't be easy. Life is, after all, a test.

  Donald Trump

  Queens, Father, Son

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Manhattan's probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana's definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Country, Indiana, Sides

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2006.

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• Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

  Carson McCullers

  Brooklyn, Brilliant, Compare

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was in Manhattan during 9/11, and that was really the only thing that I related to as far as a disaster on a grand scale. It was really interesting to see on that day and in the weeks afterwards how people came together, and what people were able to do for each other, and what I found myself feeling and thinking and doing for the people around me, whether it was strangers on the street or my own family. It was really an experience that you can't fake.

  Alexandra Daddario

  Thinking, Interesting, People

  "Dwayne Johnson & Cast Interview, San Andreas". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. May, 2015.

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• My own fashion sense has been influenced by 'We'll Take Manhattan.' It's gotten a little better.

  Karen Gillan

  Fashion, Littles, My Own

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• I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.

  Theophilus London

  Dad, Clothes, Fifth Grade

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• Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all week, .. Rain would be a relief.

  Joan Didion

  Rain, Dark, Clouds

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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

  New York, Light, Ohio

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

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• No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.

  Ezra Koenig

  Song, Velvet, These Days

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

  O. Henry

  Spring, Cities, Soul

  O. Henry (2015). “The Gift of the Magi and Other New York Stories: The Skylight Room, The Voice of The City, The Cop and the Anthem, A Retrieved Information, The Last Leaf, The Ransom of Red Chief, The Trimmed Lamp and more”, p.77, e-artnow

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• And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.

  Oliver Sacks

  Dream, Memories, Confused

  "Uncle Tungsten". Book by Oliver Sacks, 2001.

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• Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay, The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away: Thine eyes at last look far and clear, thou liftest high thy hand To spread the light of liberty world-wide for every land.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Eye, Light, Fog

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• Well, first of all, I grew up in New York City, going to first a public school, then a private school, and when I got to the private school in Manhattan, I learned of what we called 'The Promised Land,' which are the Hamptons. I've always had an affinity for the Hamptons.

  Mark Feuerstein

  New York, School, Cities

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• I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Distance, Views, Cities

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