“I love the buildings. They're called skyscrapers. They're the closest thing to an ocean here. But it's an ocean that goes straight… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now, The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets,… — Walt Whitman 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
I had a student some years ago whose father had worked on the Manhattan Project. I had a student who had to… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's… — Joe Elliott Copy Share Image
The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs.… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
“It was a brave city, she decided, eyeing them. Brave in its other sense; not courageous, so much as outstanding, commanding. It… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that. — Mitch Leigh Copy Share Image
The interview process tests not what the applicant knows, but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater… — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa 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 like the theater, dining and chasing women. Let me put it this way: I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan.… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College… — Jenna Ushkowitz 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
The horse could not do without Manhattan. It drew him like a magnet, like a vacuum, like oats, or a mare, or… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
For me, Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' defines New York. Both New York and Manhattan Island should be in black in white! I always… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
What can you say about a man who leaps from a helicopter over Manhattan without a parachute in the hope that by… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
... the job [at the Manhattan Institute] gives me a platform where I can focus on the themes that I explored in… — Robert Bryce Copy Share Image
And one has eaten and one walks, past the magazines with nudes and the posters for bullfight and the Manhattan Storage Warehouse,… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Even after three hundred maps have been handed out, Ama and I still melt the moment people switch from being suspicious that… — Becky Cooper Copy Share Image