New york city Quote by Jonathan Lethem Download Open image ““There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.”” — Jonathan Lethem ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare New york city Nyc Subway Tourettes York City
“But if pressed, I’d have to say that what I love most about the subways of New York is what they do not do.… — Bill Hayes Copy Share Image
“Every day in New York City is a test. Work hard and pass this test, you get a chocolate cookie. From a strange man… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“New York lies far beyond these islands, this labyrinth. There, once you emptied a subway coach by simply closing your eyes and chanting a… — Maria Luisa B. Aguilar-Carino Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Manhattan can act as a giant suction cup, sucking you into its folds. The city breeds no wimps and makes no apologies.” — Kate Rockland Copy Share Image
“There’s something about New York City that gives you permission to just be. There’s no need for pretense, no need for masks. You can… — Jessica Verdi Copy Share Image
“The trick of enjoying New York is not to be so busy grinding your way to the center of the earth that you fail… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“New Yorkers love the bigness- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“In a city where human beings struggle for the privilege of sleeping over subway grates,” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“I suppose there was never a reason for tearing down a cabin or scrapping a stopped automobile, if you had all those acres.” — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
It's impossible to overstate how my relationship to music forms a preserve for the esoteric or even spiritual aspect of my relationship to cultural… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“If. If Mingus Rude could be kept in this place, kept somehow in Dylan's pocket, in his stinging, smudgy hands, then summer wouldn't give… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Mingus Rude, Arthur Lomb, Gabriel Stern and Tim Vandertooth, even Aaron K. Doily: Dylan never met anyone who wasn't about to change immediately into… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on the clock… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car.” — Jonathan Lethem 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
Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
“10. Calories count in New York City. The Big Apple recently adopted a law that requires fast-food restaurants with at least fifteen outlets in… — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with mental health… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the… — Jacob K. Javits Copy Share Image
Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I grew up in New York City. We used to diss Long Island and Jersey. Every big city has its own suburb like that. — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving turkey. They… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
Anything that I'm doing I think I always come at it from an outsider perspective. The first like real front page story that I… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
