New York Quotes - Page 8

• My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.

  Bill Murray

  Thinking, People, Misunderstood

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• The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

  John Jay Chapman

  Powerful, Past, Lost

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs”

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• An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.

  Garrison Keillor

  Running, Cities, Interesting

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• You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

  O. Henry

  Wise, Ocean, Thinking

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 552-553), 1922.

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• A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner.

  Jackie Mason

  Sound, Speak, Foreigners

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• 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, Block, Adventure

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• Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.

  Daniel Okrent

  Newspapers, Courses, New York Times

  "THE PUBLIC EDITOR; Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?". www.nytimes.com. July 25, 2004.

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• And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.

  Ruben Blades

  Albums, Firsts, Panama

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• At the height of rush hour, people on the London underground actually say "excuse me." Imagine what would happen if you tried an insane stunt like that on the New York City subway. The other passengers would take it as a sign of weakness, and there'd be a fight over who got to keep your ears as a trophy.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Fighting

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.104, Crown Archetype

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• Everybody in New York, including police horses, dresses fashionably, and whenever I'm there, even in my sharpest funeral-quality suit with no visible ketchup stains, I feel as though I'm wearing a Hefty trash bag. And it's last year's Hefty trash bag.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Horse, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.143, Crown Archetype

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• It is an inconvenience, being located in a city where taxes are ludicrously high, where you pay twice your annual income to rent an apartment that could easily be carried on a commercial airline flight.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Cities

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.64, Ballantine Books

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• Although it was constructed in 1536, the New York subway system boasts an annual maintenance budget of nearly $8, currently stolen, and it does a remarkable job of getting New Yorkers from Point A to an indeterminate location somewhere in the tunnel leading to point B.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Jobs, Humorous

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

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• Within less than an hour, Chuck and I easily located what could well be the correct platform, where we pass the time by perspiring freely until the train storms in, colorfully decorated, as is the tradition in New York, with the spray-painted initials of all the people it has run over.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Running, Humorous

  Dave Barry (1989). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, Ballantine Books

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• We decide to start with the best-known sight of all, the one that, more than any other, exemplifies what the Big Apple is all about: the Islip Garbage Barge.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Sight

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.69, Ballantine Books

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• Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, People

  George Mikes (1959). “How to scrape skies: the United States explored, rediscovered and explained”

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• If he (The New York Taxi Driver) talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some kind of problem with the steering, probably dead pedestrians lodged in the mechanism, the result being that there is a delay of 8 to 10 seconds between the time the driver turns the wheel and the time the taxi actually changes direction, a handicap that the driver is compensating for by going 175 miles per hour, at which velocity we are able to remain airborne almost to the far rim of some of the smaller potholes.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Would Be, Delay

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• Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night. Its like musical chairs except everybody sat down around 1964.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Humorous, Night

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• I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.158, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• [Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the great number of characters which clutter up the pages. The Russian school is responsible for this.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Humorous, School

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• I love New York City.

  Li Na

  Cities, I Love New York, New York City

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• I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Nice, Years, People

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• I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

  Anais Nin

  Animal, Missing, Mind

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• In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

  George D. Prentice

  Twilight, Cities, Bats

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• New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Towers, Soap, Whiskey

  The New York Times, November 27, 1955.

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• It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York; it takes too much energy and endurance to record the infinite number of ways the city offends me.

  Pat Conroy

  Art, Hate, Cities

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.28, Open Road Media

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