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York Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction…
- It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New…
- During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the…
- Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia,…
More York Quotes
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France… — John James Audubon
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman
- I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters… — Dan Aykroyd
- I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles. — Sebastian Bach
- As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times.… — Kevin Bacon
- My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something… — Cleveland Abbe
- I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would… — Alec Baldwin
- I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't… — Ellen Barkin
- I would love to do a television show in New York City. — Ellen Barkin
- I love New York City; I've got a gun. — Charles Barkley
- When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell. — Bernard Baruch