New York Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Moving, Bridges, Cities

  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 love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Summer, Fall, Hands

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.100, Cambridge University Press

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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, Real, Smart

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• New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Crucible, Easy, Enough

  Ford Madox Ford (1927). “New York Essays”

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• The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be somebody.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Ego, Lust, Flesh

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• Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've got to go. So I went.

  Jack Kerouac

  Spring, Land, Rivers

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.317, Penguin

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• In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

  O. Henry

  Greatness, Gentleman, Dresses

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.660, Delphi Classics

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• Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities in the days of her glory, receives into its lap tribute of all the riches of the earth.

  Frances Trollope

  Thinking, Islands, Sea

  Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.225, Oxford University Press

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• Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.

  John Updike

  Trying, Bottles

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• Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven thousand people-more intimate experience than I found when racing in track. New York is the marathon that all the biggest stars want to win, but has also been the stage for an array of human stories more vast than any other sporting event.

  Grete Waitz

  Running, Stars, Winning

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• Storing your car in New York is safer than entering it in a demolition derby. But not much.

  Daniel S. Greenberg

  Car, Entering, Demolition

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• I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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• Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.

  Emma Lazarus

  Mother, Sunset, Flames

  "The New Colossus" l. 1 (1883).

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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

  Light, Ohio, Land

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

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• If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.

  O. Henry

  Feet, Trying, Stuff

  O. Henry (2007). “41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition”, p.168, Penguin

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• New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.

  Duke Ellington

  Dollars, Cadillacs, Rich

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

  Angela Carter

  Sex, Men, Cities

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  World

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

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• Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

  Jerry Rubin

  Cities, Theater, Type

  Jerry Rubin (2014). “Growing (Up) at 37”, p.15, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

  Barbara Kruger

  Cities, Culture, Los Angeles

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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

  Cities, Nyc, Excited

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• Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

  Le Corbusier

  Cities, Manhattan, Vehement

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• At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Reflection, Night, Glowing

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• New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Funny, Humorous, Hell

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• I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?

  Ayn Rand

  Sunset, Men, Sight

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.423, Penguin

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