“The big weekend rush is on. The big city emptying itself out at once. Just a skeleton crew left to keep it… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“Somehow this redneck town allows the possibility of a middle-aged New York City woman bouncing round a house alone more generously than… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
The breakfast food idea made its appearance in a little third-story room on the corner of 28th Street and Third Avenue, New… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
[Kenneth Koch] taught children in public schools in New York City to write poems and told them down worry about rhyming, don't… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
You never know when people with sick minds can destroy your life. It doesn't matter how well life is going on for… — Toni Kukoc Copy Share Image
I love just seeing shots of New York inside of a fictional movie that are not controlled. I do not like shots… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
“Ever since, New York has existed for me simultaneously as a map to be learned and a place to aspire too--a city… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Every block of the city is a quintessential definition of the highly diversified New York food cultue. Each area is divided as… — Vikas Khanna Copy Share Image
“And suddenly it came to him. That Strawberry Fields garden he'd come from, and the Freedom Tower he'd been thinking of: taken… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
I could see no position to say, 'I'm going to make a living as a writer.' But I went to classes for… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
In 1949, when I was 2, my family moved from Yonkers, NY, to a development of brick houses in Elmont, a Long… — Susan Lucci Copy Share Image
Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
“Only by embracing the lessons embedded in our city's history can we avoid repeating the failed policies of both the recent and… — Ralph da Costa Nunez Copy Share Image
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Working late one night in 1940, poolside at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Irving Berlin, Munn Lodge 190, New York City, told… — Steven L. Harrison Copy Share Image
New York is big, fast, energetic, and has the most and best of everything. While it can push the senses, it's the… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
“I was in the army… We went to fight a bad white man, or so the whites told us. We had meetings… — Robert Joseph Shea Copy Share Image
Whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror. Where I used… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
Basically, the prosecutor who led case against me and that administration were trying to say that an actor can be held responsible… — Harry Reems Copy Share Image
“The ultimate test of a great team is results. And considering that tens of thousands of people escaped from the World Trade… — Patrick M. Lencioni Copy Share Image
“After arriving in America, John and Adeline continued on their tour of American Universities, leaving their daughter Ursula in the New York… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit,… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the… — Sal Albanese Copy Share Image
Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Lying alone in bed in New York City, an anxious Goldman decided she could get the money Berkman needed to buy a… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
Let me show you, the rhyme.. Excuse me - but, Lady Liberty needs glasses and so does Mrs. Justice by her side… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
“From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. And just as it had been tradition of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
New York has become an example of everything that is wrong with America. White Americans, fearing the crime and social alienation in… — David Duke Copy Share Image
“Disproportionate coverage in the news media plainly has effects on readers and viewers. When Esther Madriz, a professor at Hunter College, interviewed… — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
“Carol and I have found that unless God baptizes us with fresh outpourings of love, we would leave New York City yesterday!… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Almond lived much farther up town, in an embryonic street with a high number—a region where the extension of the city… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I feel like kids that grew up in New York City or in L.A. were exposed to all these subcultures and subgenres,… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I've worked with the Warrens. For about 20 years. I was really good friends with Ed. Ed and Lorraine. We went our… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
“September 10, 2001. A storm is brewing in New York City. A clash is about to begin. Tempers will soon rise as… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“At the top of the Palisades in Weehawken, New Jersey is a small park known as the Dueling Grounds. This Revolutionary War… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
I think people like difference. When you walk out the door in New York City, in a mixed-use neighborhood like the Village,… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
“There was, of course, nowhere better in the world to be than New York City. This fact was the foundation of her… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image