Manhattan Quotes · Page 6

Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.

— Mario Batali

The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.

— Mick Jagger

I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.

— Eve Ensler

I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.

— Paul Auster

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

— Karen Gillan

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

— Brian Quinn

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

— Diane Ackerman

I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.

— Theophilus London

A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book…

— Bill Maher

Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers.…

— Norman Foster

Nuclear weapons are inherently threatening to all of civilization. If that had been a nuclear weapon at the World Trade Center, even…

— Robert Scheer

After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first…

— Andy Behrman

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

So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked. Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has…

— Rick Riordan

A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around…

— Dylan Moran

I did a lot of community theatre and met a manager that worked out of Philadelphia, and she started sending me up…

— John Gallagher, Jr

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

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

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

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

Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit on the parking lot at the mall.…

— Seth Shostak

“ "The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes. It…

— Pete Hamill

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

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

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

In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise…

— O. Henry

I live in Brooklyn. I moved here 14 years ago for the cheap rent. It was a little embarrassing because I was…

— Colson Whitehead

When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a…

— Susan Orlean

The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do…

— Richard North Patterson

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong…

— Daniel Libeskind

sometimes gossip is by far the most reliable source of information about yourself and all your friends, especially in Manhattan. I always…

— Plum Sykes

I've been asked a lot why didn't 'Ruined' go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has…

— Lynn Nottage

Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting…

— Cassandra Clare

[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band.…

— Jon Gordon

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

— Alice Hoffman

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