A Quote by Alistair Cooke

New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

Alistair Cooke

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Alistair Cooke
American - Journalist
November 20, 1908 - March 30, 2004

New York has the biggest, most eclectic collection of people in the world.

Brandon Stanton

New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.

James M. Cain

I love to be in New York. And I think anybody who's a designer, who says they're doing an urban collection, thinks about the streets of New York. I cannot do an urban collection thinking of Bangkok. Or Mexico. To me, it's totally instant, totally connected with what attracts me these days. But this resurgence of a modern, cool way of being dressed is something that stimulates me and is totally right for me. Even now I don't like to show something that is some futuristic utopia.

Olivier Theyskens

I always thought it's not that the greatest players in the world come from New York. It's just the guys who shouldn't have made it, they came from New York. That's what makes New York special.

Kenny Smith

I just love New York. New York has energy, it has culture, New York is very diverse. There's not a better place in the world.

Chris Rock

I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a soprano in England, but I was an alto in singing Jewish music in bar mitzvahs and weddings and synagogues throughout New York City because, after Israel, New York is probably the biggest Jewish community in the world.

Charlemagne Palestine

I grew up in New York City: Harlem, New York. I played ball for probably two of the biggest amateur basketball organizations in the city.

Cam'ron

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

Federico Garcia Lorca

New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.

Nancy Pickard

New York is the biggest city, biggest fan base, and they don't sugarcoat nothing around here.

Jason Pierre-Paul

I'm from New York and I love New York and I'm always repping New York, but what I represent is something deeper than just being a New York rapper.

ASAP Rocky

New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate villages, some of them existing on different continents, some of them existing in different centuries, and many of them at war with one another. English is not the primary language in many of these villages, but the Roman alphabet does still have a slight edge.