New york Quotes · Page 46

I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.

— Gaby Hoffmann

Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.

— Cassandra Clare

In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

— M.I.A

New York is great for people watching and there's a bunch of amazing rooftops.

— Jamie Bell

In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.

— Casey Affleck

If its December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?

— Howard E. Koch

If you want to be a stand-up comedian or an artist, you move to New York.

— T. J. Miller

I think I arrived in this world to be creative: a performer, and an entertainer, and I channeled that through doing theater…

— Amanda Bearse

L.A. films are hard to define compared to New York films because New York films are their own subgenre, in a way.…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

In Los Angeles, wealth and poverty are separated by the freeways. In New York, they're next to each other.

— George C. Wolfe

Before I got into television, I was working in New York. I interviewed a few people there, wrote a few articles for…

— Tess Daly

When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed…

— Dennis Farina

Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can…

— Stuart Rose

“Oh. Well was this your first time painting a live model?” She nodded her head, with an almost guilty look on her…

— Zack Love

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some…

— Alan Hovhaness

Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of…

— Roscoe Conkling

Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it. New York…

— Hillary Clinton

I grew up in - I personally grew up in a gun culture. I grew up in upstate New York where most…

— Stephen J. Dubner

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time…

— Andrew Cuomo

My wife, aside from being amazing in general, was really the catalyst in this, and I really owe a lot of the…

— Josh Cooke

The New York Times reports that Moammar Gadhafi spent his last days hovering between defiance and delusion, surviving on rice and pasta.…

— Conan O'Brien

My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met…

— Alexis Denisof

I grew up in New York City, but the rest of the world was a very big part of my upbringing.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great - besides me, of course.

— Oscar de la Renta

I've fought in London. I've fought in Los Angeles. I've fought in New York.

— Gervonta Davis

I'm a fourth-generation New Yorker. My family has been in New York for many, many years.

— Emory Cohen

Film directors don't come to the theatre in Sydney. In London and New York, they do.

— Essie Davis

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?

— Henny Youngman

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

— Thomas Jefferson

A lot people who hear that 'Go New York Go' assume that I must be black.

— Jesse Itzler

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

— Theodore Bikel

New York City is the greatest city on the planet. It's the capital of the world.

— Andy Mineo

I toured as a nightclub comedian and did some television in New York.

— Jackie Coogan

I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!

— Spike Lee

I love New York. It 'as made me who I am, know what I mean?

— Prodigy

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

— John Cusack

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

— Le Corbusier

I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.

— Brendan Behan