New York City Quotes - Page 2

• New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.

  Henry Miller

  New York, Insane, Vitality

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi (Second Edition)”, p.159, New Directions Publishing

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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, New York, Real

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• London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

  Dorothy Parker

  New York, Paris, Hopeful

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• Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  New York, Moving, Bridges

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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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

  New York, Cities, Nyc

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• This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, New York, Humor

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". m.imdb.com. 1993.

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• I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

  Gregory Corso

  Easter, New York, Men

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• My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.

  Rob Zombie

  Jobs, New York, Thinking

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• In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Government, Cities

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• Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.

  Annie Dillard

  Summer, New York, Writing

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books

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• Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, it is common, and they don’t even notice.

  Anthony Weiner

  Marriage, New York, Gay

  "Democratic Mayoral Candidate Forum: Gay and Lesbian Issues". www.gothamgazette.com. April 11, 2005.

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• My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

  Joe Lhota

  Mother, New York, Dad

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• Today, Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed when he learned that a firehouse isn't a house where you get to fire people.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Fire, Cities

  "This Week" with Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. May 6, 2012.

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• I spend half my time in Montana, the other half in New York City. In unique ways, both places help me unwind, and both are the most satisfying places to live I can imagine.

  Jeff Shaara

  New York, Unique, Cities

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• Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

  Linus Pauling

  New York, Cells, Cities

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• I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.

  Ani DiFranco

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.

  Fisher Stevens

  Movie, New York, Cities

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

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

  Walter Lippmann

  New York, Men, Self

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• New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of bounds, the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendors of contemporary civilization, the Macedonia of the United States. It meets the most severe test that may be applied to definition of a metropolis - it stays up all night. But also it becomes a small town when it rains.

  John Gunther

  Stars, New York, Rain

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• My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.

  Carson Daly

  Girlfriend, New York, Real

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• September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.

  Nadine Gordimer

  New York, Writing, Sky

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• If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.

  John Tesh

  Education, Jobs, New York

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• I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

  Debi Mazar

  New York, Children, Growing Up

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• An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West Side of New York City, the most famous, perhaps, of all the Beatles, shot twice in the back, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, dead on arrival. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which in duty bound, we have to take.

  Howard Cosell

  New York, Cities, Games

  "Monday Night Football", December 08, 1980.

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• You know, when Sharpton and I walked in, it was, like, big commotion and everything, but everybody was very nice. And I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was - it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Running, New York, Nice

  "CNN's 'Newsroom,' MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Pile on O'Reilly". www.newsbusters.org. September 25, 2007.

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