New York Quotes - Page 5

• If for some reason you are unsure where to go, all you have to do is stand there looking lost, and within seconds a helpful New Yorker will approach to see if you have any "spare" change.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Helpful

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.66, Ballantine Books

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• I know a member of one of New York's first families (first as you drive up Tenth Avenue)

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Humorous, Family First

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.86, Da Capo Press

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• New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Time, Humorous

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• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  O. Henry

  Littles, Old New York, Happened

  O. Henry (2015). “O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature”, p.439, 谷月社

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

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Travel, Cities In The World

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• In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

  Mario Batali

  Food, New Orleans, Two

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January/February 2004.

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• Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane.' I said, 'If I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.'

  Anthony Edwards

  Real, Yesterday, Doctors

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

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• I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'

  Robert De Niro

  Rome, Cities, Nyc

  "Robert De Niro: the ultimate viewing guide" by Angie Errigo, www.empireonline.com. February 23, 2016.

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• One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, Paint

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.77, Infobase Publishing

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• My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Father, Parent

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• The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

  Bill Rodgers

  Sports, Giants, Bombs

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• One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

  Martin Scorsese

  Powerful, Reading, Cities

  "Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2010.

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• So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Zero, Cities, Numbers

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• Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

  Irving Berlin

  Music, East Berlin, Sides

  "Vogue" Magazine, November 1, 1962.

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• A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

  Le Corbusier

  Beautiful, Design, Architect

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• When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

  Bette Midler

  Inspirational, Humorous, Three

  Quoted in Jerusalem Post, 24 Feb. 1989

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• 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

  Bridges, Cities, Promise

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.517, e-artnow

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

  Pearl S. Buck

  Country, Cities, World

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• New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

  Henry James

  Old New York, New York City

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.14786, Delphi Classics

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• Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

  Johnny Carson

  Humorous, Taken, Together

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• Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Sarcastic, Traffic

  "Late Show with David Letterman",

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• New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

  Christopher Morley

  Cities, Literature, Rehabilitation

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• I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

  Tupac Shakur

  Music, New Day, Life Is Hard

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

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• New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Money, Artist, Race

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• Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.

  Helen Keller

  Dream, Real, Taken

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