Manhattan Quotes

211 Manhattan quotes by 185 unique authors

A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the… — Dylan Moran
Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria. — Benjamin Netanyahu
When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at… — Susan Orlean
If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have… — Jenna Ushkowitz
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. — Gore Vidal
The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan. — Rick Warren
Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen. — David Wilkerson
People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian.… — Christine Quinn
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the… — Jim Goad
All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the… — David Foster Wallace
With so much sky and so much river, you couldn't help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but crowding into the… — Melissa Bank
There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through… — Nora Ephron
Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan. — Jonathan Franzen
He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the black… — Arthur Phillips
Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel… — William Gibson
Have you ever thought about the grid of Manhattan?' It's like...a metaphor for life. You think you have the freedom to walk anywhere. But in… — Sophie Kinsella
Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not… — Meg Cabot
THE LUXE IS . . . Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark… — Anna Godbersen
Fang and I searched in every way we could think of and found a million institutes of one kind or another, in Manhattan and throughout… — James Patterson
I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my… — Ray Bradbury
No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown foot traffic. In… — Alice Sebold
Great,” Simon said. “Maybe I’ll even make it back before my mother notices I’m gone. What’s the time difference between here and Manhattan?” “You have… — Cassandra Clare
So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked. Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other… — Rick Riordan

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