New-york-city Quotes

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy...

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

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. And just as i...

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wi...

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - bec...

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

Our grief is not a cry for war."That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what bombi...

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does

To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New...

Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes...

New York: A third-rate Babylon.

Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy wo...

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks diff...

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

The ideal of quiet and of genteel retirement, in 1835, was found in Washington Square, where the Doc...

Mrs. Almond lived much farther up town, in an embryonic street with a high number—a region where the...

Some three or four years before this Dr. Sloper had moved his household gods up town, as they say in...

My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American.

New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints t...

Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and f...

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

Starshine’s greatest challenge is deciding whether a woman is too young to soothe or too old to sham...

To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the di...

New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the g...

I mean it," I said. "You're in danger.""Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not lo...

Hell's bells, Susan, you don't know what you've done. You've got to get outof here."She snorted. "Li...

I would stay in New York, I told him, just six months, and I could see the Brooklyn Bridge from my w...

I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, ...

Do you know how long God took to destroy the Tower of Babel, folks? Seven minutes. Do you know how l...

There was Babylon and Nineveh; they were built of brick. Athens was gold marble columns. Rome was he...

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying,...

I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists]

Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten ...

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, ki...

Teddy was reminded of Paterson, but that polyglot population had appeared healthier, more hopeful, t...

Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

Meanwhile the temperature is getting hotter and hotter so no one can think clearly. No one perceives...

Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a ...

A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for m...

I once started outto walk around the worldbut ended up in Brooklyn,that Bridge was too much for me.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catast...

If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish

City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral phil...

On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.

The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the pop...

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. ...

The streets of New York and some wards of its venerable institutions were packed with people who, de...

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who w...

Guys like you can't escape the city. Hell, you a got a blood contract with this place. You're marrie...

The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independen...

When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los An...

I'd known since I was a child that I was going to live in New York eventually, and that everything i...

Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bou...

I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing arou...

Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark.

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

Oh, I know what to do when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I str...

Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

The Bronx? No Thonx!

What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?

I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, ...

I had no concept of what life at the Chelsea Hotel would be like when we checked in, but I soon real...

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

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

New York!" he said. "That's not a place, it's a dream.

New York is a sucked orange.

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I ca...

His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they l...

The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in...

Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.

New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theate...

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is...

I'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule.

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight ...

If this fails to convince, I being out my secret weapon, announcing with portentous deliberation tha...

I waited in vain for someone like me to stand up and say that the only thing those of us who don't b...

New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the w...

People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life...

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off t...

One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing S...

The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense,...

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in t...

It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, h...

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

New York, of course, is to be in endless surreal situations where a fifty-thousand dollar, gun-metal...

[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, ...

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a hou...

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-h...

Give me such shows--give me the streets of Manhattan!