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100+ New York Quotes

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1. Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York. Patrick Ewing
2. One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. Georgia O'Keeffe
3. Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers. Gretchen Rubin
4. And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park. Christo
5. And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you. Michael Bloomberg
6. No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am. Chris Paul
7. People often think of New York as a city, a concrete jungle with soaring skyscrapers and yellow taxis and the bright lights of Times Square. And it is that, in part. But beyond that, it's rolling hills of fruit orchards and fields of grain and ice-cold waters brimming with oysters. Daniel Humm
8. The loneliest ebb of my life came on that Christmas eve, only one day after my arrival in New York. The abyss of loneliness. I ate a solitary dinner in a small cafe, and the very food tasted bitter with my unshed tears. One doesn't dare cry in America. It is unmanly here. Rudolph Valentino
9. And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. Ezra Pound
10. A great day in New York would be to wake up, get a cup of coffee and head up to Central Park for a nice walk. Then I'd go down to the East Village and stroll around. After that, maybe I'd go check out a museum or catch an indie film at the Angelika. Emmanuelle Chriqui
11. There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat. Ed Sheeran
12. A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York. Lana Del Rey
13. New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room. Patricia Marx
14. New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down. Alexander McCall Smith
15. When I opened the world's largest Internet cafe, certified by the 'Guinness Book of Records,' in Times Square in New York, I was live on 'Good Morning America,' and for me, that was an achievement. Stelios Haji-Ioannou
16. Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people. Fred Wilson
17. When I was up in New York, the first record my parents bought me was the Terror Squad record with 'Lean Back.' Post Malone
18. I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking. Carol Burnett
19. New York is vertical - all skyscrapers. Tony Scott
20. Go for a walk through Central Park and stop at the Met. It's the best way to get a feel for what makes New York so special. Ivanka Trump
21. I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess by just looking at the exterior of what the city is. Greta Gerwig
22. f I go to someplace like Switzerland, I find a lot of uptight people because they're living amongst so much beauty; there's no urgency in trying to find the beauty within themselves. If you're stuck in New York, you have to somehow look within yourself - otherwise, you'd go crackers. George Harrison
23. My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline. Jack Reynor
24. Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
25. I own buildings. I'm a builder; I know how to build. Nobody can build like I can build. Nobody. And the builders in New York will tell you that. I build the best product. And my name helps a lot. Donald Trump
26. No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City. Michael Bloomberg
27. I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. Michael Douglas
28. The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations. John Muir
29. I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square. Alessia Cara
30. One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. Thomas Wolfe
31. One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. Thomas Wolfe
32. Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China. Nassim Nicholas Taleb New, No Time, Meant
33. Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery. Walter Winchell
34. I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam. Alex Turner
35. There are a lot of good women in New York. Drake
36. New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat. Brendan Behan
37. My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard. Ursula Burns
38. I love New York; I love the city. It's impossible. It's a theme park of a city, isn't it. Kit Harington
39. I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions. Derek Jeter
40. Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored. Marina Abramovic
42. And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet. John Guare
43. This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me. Woody Guthrie
44. I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just don't feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too. Blythe Danner
45. The thing about New York is, more than any other place I've ever been, you run into people on the street that you would never imagine you'd see, old friends, people just like there for a day or two. I find that all the time when I'm walking around Manhattan, running into people that I had no idea were even there. Michael Shannon
46. I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York. Milos Forman
47. I grew up in New York City, a town with different races, religions, and peoples. It breeds tolerance. Donald Trump
49. I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be. David Bowie
50. 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
51. The subway in New York is a great social experiment; there are so many races and ways of life sitting together on each car. Jon Batiste
52. New York, the nation's thyroid gland. Christopher Morley
53. You really can't go wrong. There's no bad New York pizza, as far as I know. Mick Foley
54. In New York, they like winners. They don't like second place. Eli Manning
55. One of the reasons that New York became great was that it's serviced by many, many different rivers and waterways. You have the Atlantic Ocean connected virtually right to it, and it's serviced by the East River and the Hudson River and lots of tributaries. Donald Trump
56. London is great, but New York is the greatest city in the world. John McEnroe
57. New York has always been a city of change and a city about change, and it is a back-leading development. Nobody's going to want to come to New York if it looks like another strip mall. Debbie Harry New, Always, Been
58. I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February. K. A. Applegate
59. I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway. Liz Murray
60. Different cities have different vibes to them, and New York is such a huge, thriving metropolis. Annie Wersching
61. I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway. Harold Ford, Jr.
62. The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost. Murray Kempton
63. I wanted to be a tough kid, so I thought, 'I'm going to move to New York, and I'm going to be a thug when I come out of there.' Jonny Weston
64. New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation. Yayoi Kusama
65. Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode. Nas
66. There is hardly a place in New York that you can't walk a block and a half and get a cup of coffee. Believe me, I've been all over the world. There's no place like that but New York City. Patti Smith
67.New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy. Adam Savage
68. New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed. Jim Harrison
69. For me, fashion begins in New York. Carolina Herrera
70. When I moved to New York, I started switching fragrances. Between different seasons I would change fragrance, or if I was going out for a big fancy night versus going out in the daytime. But I also found that I was changing and growing so much. Blake Lively
71. New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. David Letterman
72. You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York. William Lyon Phelps
73. I'm from New York, so I'm simultaneously a snob and will also eat any pizza you put in front of me. Andy Grammer
74. New York feels vibrant... It feels electric to walk the streets at night. Theophilus London
75. New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now have to be rich to live here. Or not live here: New York's also a preferred destination for foreign money spent on vast, lifeless apartments in the sky that are occupied a couple of weeks a year at most. Graydon Carterv
76. The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world. Steve Earle
77. New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave. Raina Telgemeier
78. When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon. John Searles
79. There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe. Don Herold
80. To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you. Billy Graham
81. New York - I'm connected. This is my core. I feel like if I'm not connected to New York, then I don't even know what to do with myself. Jay-Z
82. What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience. Henry Rollins
83. When I went to New York to try and make it, I never thought it wouldn't happen. Carol Burnett
84. I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker. Spike Lee
85. The streets of New York are entirely man-made and unmistakably that, so you feel as though you're on some sort of presentation platform whenever you're out on the streets. Tony Kushner
86. New York is about as cosmopolitan as it gets. It's a fairly mixed and woke town, so there weren't a lot of situations growing up where I felt like the outsider or the alien. Jordan Peele
87. One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life. Miuccia Prada
88. Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. David Letterman
89. New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city. Italo Calvino
90. In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time. M.I.A.
91. New York is a very tricky city. I find it very noisy. It's a jungle, and it's very stressful at times, but I'm ready for it. Garbine Muguruza
92. New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down - he gets polished. Kurt Braunohler
93. In New York, everybody looks great and is well dressed, but seeing someone in Ohio wearing Marc Jacobs is like spotting an owl in Central Park. Rare. Isabel Gillies
94. New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper. Griffin Dunne
95. When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough. Fran Lebowitz
96. New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that's beautiful. Patti Smith
97. Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go. Dave Chappelle
98. In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor. John Updike
99. New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster. John Updike
100. If 'The New York Times' says it, it must be true. Bob Newhart
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