New york city Quote by Amor Towles

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

— Amor Towles

“The city had seemed like a great place to discover who you are. It just seemed that there was a lot to experience here,…

— Sari Botton

“the boiling human chaos of metropolitan New York”

— T.R. Pearson

One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now…

— Colum McCann

“One of the more unpleasant aspects of living in New York City is how daily proximity to wealth and glamour can instill a desire…

— Kate Bolick

“New York City is legendary for sleeping around. There's hot tail everywhere and it's such a big city that two-timing and even three-timing is…

— Zack Love

“New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic.”

— Elizabeth Winder

“I had come to New York when I was seventeen because—and maybe I was not fully conscious of this then—the city had seemed like…

— Rayhane Sanders

The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become.

— Trevor Moore

It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes…

— Louis Kronenberger

“Ever since, New York has existed for me simultaneously as a map to be learned and a place to aspire too--a city of things…

— Adam Gopnik

“New Yorkers hustled past in every direction, somehow managing not to run smack into one another. A dozen scents hit her at once. Car…

— Tessa Bailey