Manhattan Quotes · Page 3

I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone,

— Ed Koch

“Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.”

— Anonymous

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

— Laura Linney

I'm English, and my favorite movie is 'Manhattan.'

— Mickey Sumner

I went to Manhattan Center High School.

— Cam'ron

I'm from Manhattan. I'm some Jewish girl from the Upper West Side.

— Julia Garner

I didn't ever want to leave Manhattan. I have an abnormal fixation.

— Charles B. Rangel

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.

— Michael Bergin

There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.

— John Catsimatidis

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

— Val Kilmer

I mean, Manhattan is cool. But weird parts, I like that. Jamaica, Queens, that's great.

— Mac DeMarco

“Manhattan can act as a giant suction cup, sucking you into its folds. The city breeds no wimps and makes no apologies.”

— Kate Rockland

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

— Anonymous

Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks…

— Henry Louis Mencken

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

— Noah Baumbach

For everyday diners in Manhattan, cracking the waiting list at Nobu is said to be harder than getting courtside tickets for the…

— David Chang

Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan… Brooklyn might sometimes also…

— Jonathan Lethem

In Manhattan, marriage is a trend. Couples kiss over their arugula and radicchio salads. They fondle each other's genitals while devouring their…

— Cynthia Heimel

I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises,…

— Hayao Miyazaki

If I have open time, and I'm in Manhattan, I'll just walk to wherever I'm going, even if I could get there…

— Siri Hustvedt

Juno: "The heroes of olympus must unite! After your victory over kronos in manhattan...well I fear that wounded jupiter's self-esteem." Percy: Cause…

— Rick Riordan

America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy…

— Michael Bywater

Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may…

— Dhani Jones

From the time I was 9 years old, I loved magic. I was an only child, and I think that had a…

— Rick Rubin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the…

— Alfred Kazin

I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get… This whole…

— Jay Gould

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

— Allen Ginsberg

Though people could, in principle, cross national borders to reach places where their work is more highly rewarded, they are in fact…

— Thomas Pogge

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

— Calvin Trillin

Sure, we had to be skinny. I lived on Diet Coke and apples for two years. For the couture, we had to…

— Abbey Lee Kershaw

Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes…

— Anonymous

For more than 40 years, I have advocated the creation of a 'round the clock' community. This would mean, at the least,…

— David Rockefeller

It's pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.

— Baz Luhrmann

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

— Ed Koch

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of…

— David Byrne

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

— David Duchovny

Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got…

— Red Buttons

Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

— Walt Whitman

How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

— Barry Ritholtz

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

— Tea Leoni