York Quotes · Page 153

“The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic…

— Milan Kundera

I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context,…

— Sufjan Stevens

I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of…

— Anne Waldman

When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck,…

— Laurie Simmons

“In a New York where people are reconceived as consumers, not citizens, it is most profitable to keep everyone moving and disconnected.…

— Anonymous

I'm inspired as a writer by any place where I've lived for a significant amount of time that have memories, my past,…

— David Duchovny

To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from…

— Fran Lebowitz

I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006…

— Abbi Jacobson

The physical environment of L.A. is really beautiful. It's actually kinda fun, too, if you're working. It's just not really fun if…

— Rose Byrne

To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where…

— Ranbir Kapoor

I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the…

— Nora Ephron

Red Hook, Brooklyn, is a spit of land jutting out over the New York Harbor and looking across to the gleaming high…

— Maya Wiley

It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff…

— Peter Scolari

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

— Josh Cooke

When you go back to 'Friends,' and you look at that as New York, there's no black people. That's not real. You're…

— Terry Crews

I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn, Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken. Go Uptown…

— Rakim

“Los Angeles was the most glamorous, tackiest, most elegant, seediest, most clever, dumbest, most beautiful, ugliest, forward-looking, retro-thinking, altruistic, self-absorbed, deal-savvy, politically…

— Dean Koontz

I love Chicago for several reasons, but one of the best is that I was so intrigued that you have wild rabbits…

— Hong Chau

Some scenes are just more people's thing than others, and I know that my Gay New York is truly whatever I make…

— Gavin Creel

I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production.…

— Tim Blake Nelson

The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York,…

— Chelsea Clinton

I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to…

— Walter Kirn

I personally would rather raise my child in New York. It seems like it would be easier to make sure she or…

— Jeremy Sisto

I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People…

— Carrie Brownstein

It's just that little box in the middle of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Most of the time I go I don't even leave…

— Erykah Badu

Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in…

— Sam Barry

“Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought…

— Raymond Chandler

New York seems very very foreign to me, like more foreign than almost anywhere in America, and almost anywhere in the world,…

— Robert Pattinson

“A lawless place and a lawless people, the Italians said. A true frontier of civilization. Dangerous. FIFTY-FIVE The Stanhope Hotel was on…

— Noel Hynd

You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous…

— Robert Pinsky

Living in Portland, which is a predominantly white city, the privilege and the luxury to be able to obsess over a certain…

— Carrie Brownstein

I moved to Portland because Modest Mouse is there. I didn't necessarily mean to live there permanently, but I've got a really…

— Johnny Marr

I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky living in London that…

— Samuel Barnett

The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Force car is a statement about New York being one of the greatest fashion capitals of the world and…

— Brad Goreski

I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something…

— Melissa McCarthy

I think Jersey stands alone, and because I'm from Jersey, I never make fun of where people are from. I'll make fun…

— Jeff Ross

“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

You can get stuff done in New York that you can't in Los Angeles. If you wanted to get some milk and…

— Justin Theroux

I'm not saying you have to be totally despondent or anything, but... in New York, it's cold sometimes; it rains sometimes; even…

— Tom Odell