New yorkers Quote by Martha Hall Kelly

“They walked across 15th Street to the Madison Hotel's Montpelier Room, an opulent French restaurant. Bradlee asked for a corner table, and began the…

— Carl Bernstein

“New Yorkers hustled past in every direction, somehow managing not to run smack into one another. A dozen scents hit her at once. Car…

— Tessa Bailey

“Although I considered not replacing the dishwasher and resigning myself to the drudgery of hand washing, my painter-pushing friend Randal slapped some sense into…

— David Lebovitz

“And then there is the waiter. Not pathetic-decidedly not comic. Never making one of those perfectly insignificant remarks which amaze you so coming from…

— Katherine Mansfield

“mess of Italy, France, and some burgeoning American cuisine that nobody really believed in yet? A hodgepodge that shouldn’t have worked? When I asked…

— Stephanie Danler

“one day, after waiting at the labor pool unsuccessfully for hours for a job to open up, he was approached by a stranger who…

— Robert Thornhill

“The café was the last in the street, if not in all Paris, to lack both a juke-box and neon lighting – and to…

— John le Carré

“And here he is, letting the massive steel street door click shut behind him, standing at the top of the three iron steps that…

— Michael Cunningham

“For months beforehand, I fielded calls from British media. A couple of the reporters asked me to name some British chefs who had inspired…

— Marcus Samuelsson

“He was nice. But the waitress spilled a drink in my lap during dinner, and then I noticed he had a piece of spinach…

— Maisey Yates

“The Parisian grocers insisted that I interact with them personally: if I wasn't willing to take the time to get to know them and…

— Julia Child

“I’d been to New York enough to know that it wasn’t always easy to find a place to walk a dog in the middle…

— Mike Lingenfelter