New york Quotes · Page 30

New York will make you feel small. I think that's good. At least, it's good for me.

— Chris Thile

My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born.

— Frank McCourt

Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet.

— Mary Helen Bowers

Going to places like Chicago and New York as the champion is kind of what was really special for me.

— Bayley

[In New York,] when you say you're an actor, there's a certain level of respect that goes with that.

— Condola Rashad

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

— Bette Midler

In New York, you can just wake up and everything sorts itself out. I love that, not having a plan.

— Kate Mara

In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.

— Vincente Minnelli

I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than…

— Lawrence Block

I've been to New York many times, and I've always noticed that there aren't that many French tucks around.

— Tan France

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets,…

— Bryan Ferry

A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.

— Ronan Farrow

It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.

— Latrell Sprewell

I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever…

— Uzo Aduba

I worked in restaurants for five or six years in New York. I've worked in restaurants a lot in my life. Never…

— Ayo Edebiri

People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New…

— John Gutfreund

I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents…

— Hans Haacke

My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly. So I came to…

— Patti Smith

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it…

— Sting

Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem…

— Langston Hughes

It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never…

— Louis Kronenberger

The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in…

— Albert Einstein

My 40th birthday I held in an old-age home. My 50th I had at Pravda before it opened in New York. My…

— John Waters

The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called…

— George Sanders

Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. Republicans won in a landslide.

— David Letterman

In New York City nightlife in the '90s, everything was camp!

— Amanda Lepore

I was on the steering committee of the New York City Coalition on Muslim School Holidays.

— Linda Sarsour

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

New York is home. It's so unique that there is no other place like it.

— Tony Rock

Basically, New York housing is designed by formula, with lots of restrictions.

— Hugh Hardy

I was from Washington, D.C., and then I came to New York and got the scholarship for the ballet.

— Chita Rivera

What works for New York is never going to work for North Dakota and across the country.

— Doug Burgum

I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job.

— Billy Eichner

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

— Bill Pullman

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

— Ambrose Bierce

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

— Diane Lane

I get I style inspiration everywhere: the streets of New York, magazines... everywhere!

— Kelly Rutherford

When I'm in New York my boyfriend buys me sneakers and vice versa.

— Lily Allen

There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.

— Don Herold

I feel like they say the upstate western New York sound is the gritty sound.

— Benny the Butcher