New york Quote by O. Henry Download Open image “It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.” — O. Henry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare New york
There are certain things that happen in New York that just don't happen anywhere else. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Odd things happen in New York, which is why it's such a great source of stories. — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
...In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers... — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst. — Jan Hammer 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 was something like a circus performer walking a tightrope an juggling at the same time…It could barely maintain its position, but an… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
Who's to say what would have happened if I had trusted my instincts and moved to New York like I thought I would. — Zachary Quinto 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
I think that New York City in the year 1900 was a very difficult place to survive. — Chris Sullivan 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
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.” — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). — O. Henry Copy Share Image
There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands. — O. Henry 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
