Attention Quote by Frank O'Hara

In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold or respectability…

— Henry David Thoreau

“If one has been absent for decades from a place that one once held dear, the wise would generally counsel that one should never…

— Amor Towles

I've been in New York my whole life. It's changed so much; it's not the New York that I grew up with. All the…

— Julia Fox

It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes…

— Louis Kronenberger

There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.

— John Oliver

The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, a…

— Sydney J. Harris

I am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years old or…

— Stan Lee

We're just people from everywhere, looking for identity. New York, with the history of freedom, and dreams, and realized dreams, people come to this…

— Pawel Althamer

“Sometimes we make choices that bring a heavy load on us while life is, relatively speaking, a picnic for others. Maybe we’ve committed to…

— Ed Strauss

For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know,

— Banjo Paterson

Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any…

— Everett Ruess