Manhattan Quotes · Page 5

I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I live in a 950-square-foot apartment with one bathroom and two sons.

— Judy Gold

It's weird, in New York City, we consider anything above Manhattan 'upstate.'

— Brian Quinn

My own fashion sense has been influenced by 'We'll Take Manhattan.' It's gotten a little better.

— Karen Gillan

In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'

— Diane Ackerman

The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park.

— Christo

One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that.

— Mitch Leigh

I love living in Manhattan, but every time I leave, I say that I'm so happy I'm leaving.

— Brooke Baldwin

I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.

— Ethan Suplee

Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and…

— Eli Attie

Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is…

— John McWhorter

One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between…

— Alice Hoffman

Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep…

— Meg Cabot

Martha Stewart showed up at Manhattan FBI Headquarters to have her finger prints taken and pose for a mug shot. Then Martha…

— Conan O'Brien

Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan,…

— Paul Farmer

All of a sudden I pulled up short and harked back to Ridley [Scott] holding up the script in Manhattan, at the…

— William Monahan

When I was 12, I got a manager, but my mom was against it. It took a lot of convincing. But when…

— Nicola Peltz

For most visitors to Manhattan, both foreign and domestic, New York is the Shrine of the Good Time. "I don't see how…

— Robert Benchley

I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you…

— Twyla Tharp

“It was a brave city, she decided, eyeing them. Brave in its other sense; not courageous, so much as outstanding, commanding. It…

— Cornell Woolrich

The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to…

— Ishmael Reed

There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or…

— Nora Ephron

Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample…

— Walt Whitman

Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown…

— Allen Ginsberg

Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the…

— Calvin Trillin

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and…

— Natasha Lyonne

The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.

— Rick Warren

I live in Manhattan, and on my block there's a church with a soup line every day. There are a lot of…

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

Mumbai is like Manhattan. Theres a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.

— Madhuri Dixit

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.

— Andrew Cuomo

When it looks like the end of the world, it's usually in Manhattan. ~ Movie Genius

— Ramandeep Singh

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.

— Jeannette Walls

Manhattan is an island. It is a concrete rock. And on top of that island are trillions of dollars.

— Ryan Serhant

[Long Island] is buoyant, it's on the outskirts of Manhattan, and so they have access to phenomenal restaurants.

— Gordon Ramsay

I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.

— Rex Stout

Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.

— Raymond Sokolov

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

— Peter Bart

“Manhattan is a small town. It has to be. Only half a dozen places in Kansas are anything else.”

— Raymond Chandler

He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.

— Lewis Mumford

I've been to Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan numerous times throughout my career.

— Nicole Malliotakis

I lived in Manhattan for 12 years and grew up outside New York City, so that was definitely how I saw the…

— Margaret Brennan