New york Quote by Edith Wharton Download Open image “...In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers...” — Edith Wharton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Escape From New York New york New yorkers Summer
New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
New York is actually a pretty safe place, and I think invoking the Bronx as a metaphor for the nightmarish urban environment is no… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. — John Updike Copy Share Image
These are such First World problems, but there's a certain claustrophobia to New York. You don't escape in the East Village, but it at… — Timothee Chalamet Copy Share Image
That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
There are certain things that happen in New York that just don't happen anywhere else. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the air was full of that deep clangor of bells which periodically covers Rome with a roof of silver.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“High Pasture Come up--come up: in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or the mirror that reflects it” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“... no treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“...the endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were… — Edith Wharton 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