York Quotes · Page 104

“These were wannabe elites who, once they popped on big-boy pants, would be infiltrating New York with their pretentiousness.”

— Alexandra Martin

One of the big luxuries of being in Antwerp is that I can easily walk in the city. In Paris and New…

— Dries van Noten

I'd just been on a trip to Minnesota, where I can only kindly describe most of the people I saw as little…

— Anna Wintour

I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.

— Claire Forlani

I'm from New York. You walk by, you bump somebody and they give you a look. There's always an attitude.

— Donovan Mitchell

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious…

— Christopher Lee

There's something about Brooklyn that reminds me of Toronto. I think because it's so community-minded.

— Sandrine Holt

My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review…

— Chris Hayes

I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value…

— John Malkovich

You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon…

— Matthew Specktor

“I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the…

— Jack Kerouac

And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New…

— Michael Chertoff

I'm not the first person to talk about this, but L.A. is just sort of a weird city because it's just a…

— Paul Rust

“Studs Terkel was waiting for a number 146 bus alongside two well-groomed business types. "This was before the term yuppie was used,"…

— Gary Younge

“We always just miss New York. I watched it with this neighborhood. When I moved here everyone was mourning SoHo of the…

— Stephanie Danler

I know the way this city works. We have one of the most corrupt cities in the country. The reason it's so…

— Zoey Tur

I'm from Stratford, East London. I can get down and dirty. I just roll my sleeves up and get on with it.

— Sol Campbell

Ah Brooklyn Brooklyn take me in. Are you aware the shape I'm in? My hands they shake my head it spins. Ah…

— The Avett Brothers

To get recognized in New York is weird because that's definitely a place you shouldn't be recognized.

— Hannah Gadsby

I couldn't live in L.A. and not be close to the beach, you know, that's like the whole thing. I don't understand…

— Mayer Hawthorne

New York really does know how to welcome you through its gates - if they decide that's what they want to do.

— Jamie Parker

I've always lived in a city. I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the…

— Ana Gasteyer

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

— Alan Rickman

L.A. was never really that interesting to me. I never really liked it. I like it now more than ever. It took…

— Eddie Jemison

I have a boutique in L.A. and travel there frequently. My visits always put me in a good mood. Maybe it's all…

— Monika Chiang

The east, I grew up here, not in Columbus but on the East Coast. It's somewhere I always wanted to play.

— Johnny Gaudreau

New Yorkers are extremely varied, of course, but we are generally sharing an urban and civilized experience.

— Steven Rinella

Toronto is my home. It's where my family is. I think I feel an obligation to be within subway distance of the…

— Sheila Heti

I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't…

— Jessie Mueller

I see people around not wanting to acknowledge that they come from a small town, but it is like a jewel in…

— Rubina Dilaik

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

— Robert Jay Lifton

I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.

— Pete Doherty

I want to go to London and let them decide if I am any good or not. New York is too soft.

— Cole Escola

New York is my favorite city to visit because there is always something to do, someone to meet, and something to discover.

— Michael Seibel

Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.

— Paul Auster

I'm a Midwestern girl; I was born in Toledo, Ohio, and grew up in Dayton until I was ten years old. Then…

— Gretchen Bleiler

I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America.

— Chris Hadfield

Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.

— Jeffrey Deitch

There's the Hollywood sign; there's Griffith Observatory; there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the…

— Robert Crais

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something…

— Cleveland Abbe