New york Quotes · Page 73

Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.

— Yayoi Kusama

A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.

— Lady Gaga

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New…

— Diane Cilento

I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my…

— Ryan McGinley

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

— David Dinkins

I think what sets a New York rapper apart from other rappers from other places is just being from New York.

— Dave East

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New…

— Christopher Denham

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

— Carter Burwell

I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and…

— Jim Gaffigan

Art is fantastic, but it's also that you come to Paris, you call me, I come to New York, I come to…

— Patrick Seguin

I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like…

— Adrian Grenier

I wasn't one of those kids who was like, 'Get me to New York. Get me to a big city.' I was…

— Joan Allen

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

You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an…

— Bill Watterson

In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New…

— P. J. O'Rourke

In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team.…

— Bob Beamon

Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It's not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and…

— Condoleezza Rice

I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time…

— Albert Camus

The commercial theatre may still be considered one of New York's primary tourist attractions, but . . . there is no longer…

— Robert Brustein

I went to the beach a couple of times in New York City. Tough summer out there, but I was pretty excited.…

— David Letterman

Arnold Schwarzenegger campaigned in New York this week, where he stepped up his controversial goal of helping children.... It's all summed up…

— Jon Stewart

When I go to America, I'm fortunate enough to stay in the nicer areas but the last time I went there -…

— Andre Gray

On many days my primary artistic struggle is, in fact, photography because it is harder to do good work with that. I…

— Teju Cole

New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her…

— Henry David Thoreau

Have you ever walked down the streets of New York and been given the right of way? It's an amazing feeling.

— A.C. Newman

I spent my childhood in northern New York State, and like many kids, bugs and other critters fascinated me.

— Romulus Whitaker

You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.

— Greta Gerwig

I always thought it was funny that my grandparents had bought a ticket to New York and ended up in Glasgow.

— Peter Capaldi

I always wanted to make a living as an actor living in New York. A New York actor. What's better than that?

— Bobby Cannavale

It is possible to work out of New York on film and television and still not lose your connection to theater.

— Richard Armitage

I enjoy every single time I play here in New York. It is one of the most electric crowds I play in…

— Carlos Alcaraz

I moved to New York at 17 to go to school. At 24, I moved back to Ithaca, then moved back to…

— Asia Kate Dillon

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.

— Frederick Pollock

There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless.

— Cynthia Nixon

I worked in the theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts for years and moved to New York and then to Los Angeles.

— Tony Shalhoub

Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her phone.

— Robin Sloan

In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.

— Tabitha Soren

Every New York Times story [about Donald Trump] is the result of the organizational efforts of Barack Obama.

— Rush Limbaugh

The best date I've had would probably have to be one where I went hiking to a big mountain here in New…

— Mikhail Varshavski

A New York friend said that visiting the South reminded her of nothing more than being in high school again.

— Rosemary Daniell