New york Quote by Colson Whitehead Download Open image “Talking about New York is a way of talking about the world.” — Colson Whitehead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare New york Talking Way Way of talking World
To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I keep saying to myself, 'I'm in New York.' I've heard so much about it. It's big, isn't it? — Evonne Goolagong Cawley Copy Share Image
True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe. — Don Herold Copy Share Image
New York is like a melting pot: so many different people, so many different cultures. — Sue Bird Copy Share Image
There's a tendency for people in New York to think the world exists between the East and the Hudson Rivers, and I don't share… — Frank Wildhorn Copy Share Image
The cool part about New York is that you can do that. You can talk to all the people you admire. — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world. — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking… — Jordana Brewster Copy Share Image
You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like… — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where I am in my career, or what I'm supposed to be doing. In fact, I'm not supposed to be doing anything. Just finding projects that are challenging to me. I want to be a writer who keeps growing… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
“Every Tuesday, James Fulton (and later, Orville Lever) stood in the downstairs drawing room and lectured on the intricacies of his science. Lectured on the implications of European maintenance deviations on Intuitionism, expounded on the gloom of the shaft and how it does not merely echo the gloom inside every living creature, but duplicates it perfectly. Afterwards there were mint… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The Great War had always been between the white and the black. It always would be. Cora” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The worst sort of scoundrels took up the chase. Drunkards, incorrigibles, poor whites who didn’t even own shoes delighted in this opportunity to scourge… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration. … Once your subject finds you, it’s like falling… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“its terms? Homer watched her as she dressed, like a valet who had waited on her since the cradle. “I’m caught,” Cora said. “You… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
These days I find myself wanting to avoid being pigeon-holed, ghettoized, held in a different category than other authors. And when people ask me… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in an alternative… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A. — Julie Kavner Copy Share Image
New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The midwest is great because it hasn't been entirely claimed. There's more room to write about it; it's harder to write about New York,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
In New York, you are constantly faced with this very urgent decision that you have to make, about every twenty minutes...you have to decide,… — David Cross Copy Share Image
One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry,… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah,… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
