Contests Quote by Fanny Fern

A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city…

— Stephen Birmingham

In New York and LA, there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something.

— Sloane Crosley

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

— John Cusack

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

— Henry James

New York is full of people . . . with a feeling for the tangential adventure, the risky adventure, the interlude that's not likely…

— Joan Didion

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

— Don Herold

New York loves a winner, which is confounding when one considers the inherent, systematic ways it impedes success.

— Cord Jefferson

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

I just want to taste what it's like to win in New York

— David Wright

There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to…

— Hari Kunzru

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign,

— Alec Baldwin

Everything in New York ain't always what it seems.

— Too Short