New york city Quotes · Page 13

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

— Ai Weiwei

“People go to LA to "find themselves", they come to New York to become someone new.”

— Lindsey Kelk

I love New York City. I love that I get to live there and I love everything about it.

— Mike Myers

I lived in Manhattan for 12 years and grew up outside New York City, so that was definitely how I saw the…

— Margaret Brennan

New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.

— Takashi Murakami

“Everyone in New York City thinks they are famous without being famous.”

— Ethan H. Minsker

I think New York City is a lot more European than the rest of America; it's much easier for an English person…

— Ben Howard

What I don't want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik…

— Steve Reich

I heard that I was off traveling around the world skiing in Argentina and things like that. I may have had a…

— Billy Squier

Transportation is an essential part of our lives, and in New York City where driving is not a viable option most of…

— Simi Linton

A lot of issues were on the ballots. In New York City there was Proposition 14. That would put a ceiling on…

— David Letterman

“But then, as I looked in the mirror, I became fixated on some hairs near my carotid artery that were still there.…

— Zack Love

Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of…

— Albert Camus

Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics,…

— Jonathan Dee

I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need…

— Alison Bechdel

Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City…

— Henry Rollins

“Not so long ago, I spent a period in New York City, that teeming island of gneiss and concrete and glass, inhabiting…

— Olivia Laing

Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did,…

— Annie Dillard

When I was a kid, I used to live in New York City. There was a guy named Michael Alig. He used…

— Jared Leto

One of the greatest investments of our lifetime has been New York City real estate, and investors made the highest returns when…

— Mary Meeker

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are…

— Jonathan Kozol

“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

“Be sure not to minimize things that matter to you in light of things that seem to matter to others. If it…

— Chrystal Evans Hurst

“All right, sweetheart; here's your last question, and it's a real challenge, so don't let yourself get distracted by these jealous women.…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.

— Christine Quinn

“My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American.”

— Henry Miller

When I was about 12, I saw Mark Rylance do this play in New York City called 'Jerusalem' and that really changed…

— Charlie Plummer

“The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.”

— Ed Koch

Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

— Mick Cornett

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

— Elisabeth Rohm

“No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital…

— Kenneth T. Jackson

“Last summer had meant lots of Sam Adams Summer Ale by herself on hot weekend days when it seemed like just her…

— Anonymous

The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.

— Van Jones

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

— J. C. Chandor

“Even heavy automobile traffic out of New York City on a summer weekend minutely unbalances the earth as it rotates.”

— Paul Allman Siple

In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

— George D. Prentice

I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above.

— Justin Peck

...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven.

— Ed Koch

“That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to…

— Amor Towles

I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.

— Brian K. Vaughan