Top 548 Manhattan Quotes & Sayings

I was going to clubs in Manhattan when I was 14.

'Harlem River' is about the Harlem River in uptown Manhattan. I don't know much to say about it. I came upon that river a couple of years ago. I was doing a walk the length of Manhattan, from the top to the bottom, and I had never seen that river before.

I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.

Manhattan is where America began.

For me, Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' defines New York. Both New York and Manhattan Island should be in black in white! I always hear the soundtrack of Gershwin in my head every time I go over the Queensboro Bridge, or come in from JFK because of it!

My father didn't want to go to Manhattan for me, and I came to Manhattan and I have done a great job in Manhattan. And then I wrote a best-seller and I wrote numerous best-sellers.

Manhattan is just all bank branches.

Do I like Manhattan? No. Do I want to be in Manhattan? No.

As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.

I didn't ever want to leave Manhattan. I have an abnormal fixation.

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.

I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.

Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.

The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park.

I live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.

I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

I did 'Prodigal Son' at Manhattan Theatre Club.

I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.

So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked. Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate.

What if Manhattan was hit by Hurricane Katrina?

I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.

I was a sitting judge in Manhattan. I was a supervising judge in Manhattan, and they said to me, 'Did you ever think of doing what you do on television?'

Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that.

Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now, The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even the sight of the wounded,) Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

I grew up in Midtown Manhattan.

I looked across the river to Manhattan. It was a great view. When Sadie and I had first arrived at Brooklyn House, Amos had told us that magicians tried to stay out of Manhattan. He said Manhattan had other problems--whatever that meant. And sometimes when I looked across the water, I could swear I was seeing things. Sadie laughed about it, but once I thought I saw a flying horse. Probably just the mansion's magic barriers causing optical illusions, but still, it was weird.

I played tennis at underneath - Brooklyn Bridge? Manhattan Bridge? Williamsburg Bridge? There are courts on the Manhattan side.

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.

Dear Isabelle, Alec is about to have a nervous breakdown. If you do not immediately desist planing my wedding to your brother, I will come back to Manhattan and blow up the Institute. I will turn Church into a man-eating beast who will rampage through the streets of Manhattan, stepping on mundanes. And I will make you fat. Love, Magnus

I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.

I'm an indoors person. I'm not afraid of the outdoors and I penetrate it easily and cheerfully. However, I must admit I like Central Park better than the wilderness, and I like the canyons of Manhattan better than Central Park, and I like the interior of my apartment better than the canyons of Manhattan, and I like my two rooms better with the shades down at all times than with the shades up. I'm not an agoraphobe at all, but I am a claustrophile, if you see the distinction.

There are a lot of writers who just want to do their own thing and avoid the rest of the Marvel Universe. But for me that was one of the things I loved about Marvel: that shared universe. So of course you would run into a mutant in Manhattan. You would run into another hero in Manhattan. For me, I figured why not? Why not have that fun?

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

I'm English, and my favorite movie is 'Manhattan.'

Manhattan cabs are born old.

I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.

I love 'Manhattan', and I know it's not one of Woody's favorites.

In about 2002, I moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn, to Red Hook.

I'm from Manhattan. I'm some Jewish girl from the Upper West Side.

One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that.

I'm not really an ideologue. I think I'm a person of common sense. I think more than anything else and I was a Democrat, I came from a place - you know, I lived in Manhattan. I started in Queens with my parents and then when I started doing a little better and better deals, I was able to get into Manhattan, I moved into Manhattan and in Manhattan you, you know, Republicans are not exactly flourishing. And so I started off as a Democrat like Ronald Reagan was also a Democrat.

No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses!

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.

I love Manhattan.

I would love to be playing in Manhattan one more time.

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

Rotgut was, to me, just this way to get into the underground of Manhattan where you have these little pockets a villain could rise from; a rot in the bowels of Manhattan. It led to these stories that were just very creepy.

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

It's pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.

I went to Manhattan Center High School.

When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties - before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.

Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.

When moonlight french kisses the Manhattan midnight There's a not a face without a teardrop that's in sight Midnights in Manhattan keep me dreamin' I think I'm gonna keep em

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

We would go in there with our parents once in a while for - actually go into Manhattan for dinner, weekends occasionally to a museum, but most of my memories of traveling into Manhattan was with the school trips and then later on as we got, you know, into high school, kind of on our own and with friends.

My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan .