York Quotes · Page 132

Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had…

— Joseph Pisani

I think Los Angeles is an incredible city. It's also very diverse, which I love about it.

— Dominique Crenn

In New York there's a lot of interstitial spaces; spaces in between spaces, where you're changing, and New York gives you the…

— Dee Rees

Everything in New York is a fight. It's a fight to get on the subway. It's a fight to go to CVS.…

— Alexandra Bracken

Being embraced by the British people is a beautiful compliment for me. It feels very special.

— John Grant

I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.

— Jon Stewart

A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

— Emeril Lagasse

I had never been to Hawaii, and now I say that my body is from L.A. but my heart is from Hawaii,…

— Shailene Woodley

Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know 'That…

— Kate Spade

When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn't have…

— Adam Rapp

What I'm nostalgic for is the idea of an edge in New York. There used to be these fringes of the city…

— Jay McInerney

I used to live in the Bronx, then I lived uptown on 106th St. and Broadway, and finally I moved to Harlem…

— Regina Hall

I moved to Kentish Town from Chelsea in 1983, partly because I had a lot of friends already living in the area…

— Diana Quick

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways,…

— Alistair Cooke

The charge that liberal candidates don't connect with or understand the values and beliefs of regular Americans is embedded in old epithets…

— Jeff Greenfield

For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little…

— David Lyons

The Clash will always be from London, and we will always be from New Jersey. But New Jersey doesn't create us.

— Brian Fallon

Listen, my home tour is the European Tour and if I had to choose one place to live, it would be England.

— Paul Casey

To me, Los Angeles was the invention of the suburb. They figured it out and perfected it and created a city that…

— Edward Burtynsky

I left home when I turned 17 and ran away to New York. I did a lot of moving. I was based…

— Sarah Roemer

San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure.

— William Saroyan

We moved to a place where we felt the children could have as normal an upbringing as possible. Los Angeles was not…

— Doug Davidson

If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

— Jonathan Dee

I didn't know what gay was until I lived in New York for 10 years. You know, I was just underexposed in…

— Isaiah Washington

I could've shot the whole East Village, because it was and is my neighborhood. But Seventh Street is precious to me.

— Josh Pais

There's so much nonsense tossed around about L.A. and how horrible it is and 'don't go out there' and all that stuff.…

— Josh Radnor

I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of…

— Jacques Chirac

I love LA because I can have space, sunlight, good weather and play a little golf. There's not too much I hate…

— Charlie Day

Ive got a lot of friends there and there is stuff to do but as much as I dislike LA I really…

— David Cross

I'm in New York a lot. And every time I'm in New York, I'm out every night - it's a bit much.…

— Riley Keough

I love Sandy Liang; she's a New York girl. I adore Shush/Tong, Martine Rose and Thom Browne.

— Ayo Edebiri

I remember being a child eagerly looking out the Amtrak window, waiting for the New York City skyline to emerge.

— Maya Wiley

Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in…

— Jason Alexander

Someone from the family is always with me in England, and for me, that's the perfect life.

— David Silva

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in…

— Lorene Scafaria

If you live in New York or you're around and you know you can choose to get in trouble. Or you can…

— Evan Mock

I forget how beautiful and calm California is. It's not so much about the place, but also the age that I came…

— Paul Beatty

My favourite store? Seize Sur Vingt in New York. They make most of my suits, and they are really cool people.

— Matt Berninger