Before he fought Billy Conn, Joe Louis said, 'He can run, but he can't hide.' That's how I feel about New York:… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as…the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstanding job of… — Patrick Ewing Copy Share Image
When I went to New York, I was exposed to things I definitely wasn't exposed to in South Jersey and Pitman. — Madeline Brewer Copy Share Image
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of… — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
I grew up in New York City where there is no night sky. Nobody has a relationship with the sky, because, particularly… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For a wide-ranging look at literary matters, the 'Book Review Podcast' from the 'New York Times' is still one of the best.… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I like what I see now in China, but I think the Japanese are a step ahead into craziness and weirdness. I… — Jean Pigozzi Copy Share Image
In a free society we're supposed to know the truth.. In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then,… — Tadashi Yanai Copy Share Image
Fang and I searched in every way we could think of and found a million institutes of one kind or another, in… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I started out with a business and psychology major, and then I started doing plays and concentrating more and more on theater.… — Linden Ashby Copy Share Image
When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe. — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
For more than 200 years, the Staten Island Ferry has been a symbol of New York City's harbor and an integral part… — Nicole Malliotakis Copy Share Image
I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged.… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters — Busta Rhymes Copy Share Image
I did a lot of 'NYPD Blues' and 'Law & Orders' and a couple of other ones that were shot in New… — Frank Vincent Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is now driving from New York to Iowa. It's been called the least-exciting spring break trip in history. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
It's been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times. — Joe Buck Copy Share Image
NYU Film School was the way to learn about film, to be exposed to film, to go to repertory houses, to be… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
As a black person of non-gender-conforming experience, my first existentially reciprocal and affirming experiences were in the New York ballrooms. — Indya Moore Copy Share Image
New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was… — Steve Zahn Copy Share Image
I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am… — Lorin Maazel Copy Share Image
I love Northampton. As exciting and glamorous as New York can be, I'm always really relieved to get back there. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
By the power invested in me by the state of New York and the Universal Life Church, I now pronounce you husband… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Researchers here in New York created a robot that actually passed a self-awareness test. So if you're keeping score, that's robots: 1,… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
New York is fast paced, with enthusiastic fans and lots of media attention. Houston's slower paced, and there's more of a southern… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at… — Banksy Copy Share Image
“Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.” — Ann Douglas Copy Share Image