'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I grew up in Manhattan. For Manhattanites, Brooklyn was the sticks, a second-rate civilization. My friends and I, we were so snobby.… — William Klein Copy Share Image
If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There's a restaurant in Manhattan called Balthazar, and next to it is Balthazar Bakery. It's tiny, and it's very charming to have… — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there… — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the… — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
I don't seem to take vacations, but I must say, a jaunt into Central Park can be mighty transporting. My boy and… — Spencer Kayden Copy Share Image
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that computer speeds are measured in nanoseconds and picoseconds - one billionth and one trillionth of a second, respectively… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
“Back and forth from Brooklyn to Manhattan. New York at night, from its bridges, is a miracle. When I first came to… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan; you're living in… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
It's a luxury being able to work every day in the streets of Manhattan. It doesn't get much cooler than that. When… — Kelli Giddish Copy Share Image
I see almost no change in the price of the composite product that flows through Costco I don't feel sorry for the… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I was an accidental banker. To please my parents, I went for an interview with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1983. They promised… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Seeing New York in the movies is what made me want to live in Manhattan one day. I eventually got my wish,… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
I am sure that the experience of growing up in the heart of the working class and learning from my parents, and… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
My grandmother told a story that when they used to leave from Southampton to go into the City, because he had apartment… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
On numerous visits to Manhattan, I have found myself poking around the city trying to find a moment of quiet and once… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
[Buckminster] Fuller's idea of progress is a very 1950s organization man out of the military sort of idea of progress. So as… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
“Then, one sunny September morning, the illusion of a personal God that I tried so hard to believe in, exploded over the… — Nathan Phelps Copy Share Image
“Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had—not unlike Isaiah Berlin—often felt himself ungainly… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
At the end of the two years that I was the director [of the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health in Manhattan],… — Bernard Nathanson Copy Share Image
The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I was in Manhattan during 9/11, and that was really the only thing that I related to as far as a disaster… — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
Pretty much at the age of 16, I realized acting wasn't going to be the vocation for me...too political not enough creative… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
I'm an indoors person. I'm not afraid of the outdoors and I penetrate it easily and cheerfully. However, I must admit I… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
God doesn't seem to talk to people like he used to. Who's he talking to now? I don't know. Then I'm walking… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
With so much sky and so much river, you couldn't help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work,… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“And it was to this city, whenever I went home, that I always knew I must return, for it was mistress of… — Willie Morris Copy Share Image
![“I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan; you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.” quote by Nikki Giovanni](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/950/nikki-giovanni-1757_built_i-used-to-go-up-to-her-house-she-lived-u_2078179.jpg)
![“[Buckminster] Fuller's idea of progress is a very 1950s organization man out of the military sort of idea of progress. So as a result, you have something like: we've got bad weather in New York City; let's put a dome over it. And so I don't want to put a dome over Manhattan and I hope that nobody…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/864/jonathon-keats-10822_bad-weather_buckminster-fuller-s-idea-of-progress-is_1517956.jpg)
![“At the end of the two years that I was the director [of the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health in Manhattan], we had done 60,000 abortions. [During my life] I myself, with my own hands, have done 5,000 abortions. I have supervised another 10,000 that residents have done under my direction…” quote by Bernard Nathanson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f4e/bernard-nathanson-48489_abortion_at-the-end-of-the-two-years-that-i-was-t_1911578.jpg)
