Famous People's New York Quotes
Woody Allen
”This is the town that never sleeps. That´s why we don´t live in Duluth. That plus I don´t know where Duluth is”
Russel Baker
”New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian”
Saul Bellow
”New York is not the cultural center of America, but the business and administrative center of American culture”
James Cameron
”I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth”
Truman Capote
”New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water”
Johnny Carson
”New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most of it unsolved”
John Jay Chapman
”The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost”
Arthur C. Clarke
”If a man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere”
Trevor Dunn
”NYC is chaotic. And I am attracted to chaos”
Jennifer Dunning
”Weekdays, New York City´s financial district bustles with activity. Its streets are rivers of rushing humanity, its air is thick with the sounds of traffic”
Duke Ellington
”New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadilacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
”Brodway is Trade and Vanity made flesh”
Jim Harrison
”New Yorkers are mostley intrested in New York – in case you haven´t noticed”
Don Herold
”There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe”
Simon Hoggart
”Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You´re tired, you´ve had a headache since you arrived, but you can´t leave because then you´d miss the party”
Philip Hone
”The hole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years”
Georgia O´Keeffe
”One can´t paint New York as it is, but rather as it felt”
Murray Kempton
”The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost”
David Letterman
”Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines”
Jennifer Lopez
”The thing I love about New York is that everything is possible there.”
Madonna
”I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street – just assult you and tell you what they think of your jacket”
Don Marquis
”Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm”
Jackie Mason
”A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner”
Robert Moses
”Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life”
Lewis Mumford
”New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city”
Sarah Jessica Parker
”That´s another reason I love New York. Just like that, it can go from bad to cute”
Robert Persig
”New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there”
George Segal
”There´s no room for amateurs, even in crossing the streets”
Stanley Siegel
”It´s much better to be a neurotic in New York than in Nashville. There they liked me but they didn´t understand me. Here they like me and understand me”
Frank Sinatra
”If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.”
Elaine Stritch
”New York is like a disco, but without the music”
Andy Warhol
”Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants”
Thomas Wolfe
”One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years”
Frank Lloyd Wright
”New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent”
Famous People’s New York Quotes
