Top 1200 York Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don't even like New York rappers.

I've always had a dream about New York. New York is an island... those bridges... the skyline... the dynamism.

I mean, if you look at all the great romantic screwbally kind of movies from the '30s and '40s, they're all in New York. Even 'Sleepless in Seattle,' a movie about Seattle, ends up in New York, of course. The whole country, even if they've never been to New York, knows about it... from the movies.

Sex and the City changed New York-New York's become a big shoe store now, unfortunately.

It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

If you've ever tried to move from L.A. back to New York, that's a pretty hard move. You forget how cramped things are in New York. You forget how dirty it is in New York. But, it's been the best move of my life, not necessarily for my career, but for my soul.

New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.

Anywhere in New York, anywhere in the country, somewhere there's going to be a Coke sign. People identify with Coke. You can write a novel about New York and people from the country will read it if they feel that you've made them familiar with New York.

I always figured Metropolis was north of New York, actually. Between New York and Boston, in my mind.

New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

I would stay two years in San Francisco, then move to New York in the summer of 1991, for the love of a man who lived there. When I arrived in New York, I had a job waiting for me, courtesy of a bookstore I'd worked at in San Francisco, A Different Light. They had a New York store as well, and arranged an employee transfer.

When I left New York, not a lot of shows were happening there, but 'Golden Boy' is such a New York show.

A lot of writers choose to live in New York, partly because of the literary culture here, and partly because Brooklyn's a pretty nice place to live. And a lot of writers who might not geographically reside in New York still point their ambitions towards New York in some sense.

I got the chance to experience the full effect of New York and win in New York. There's nothing better.

The vibe, it's that excitement. New York, you just can't describe it. You get a similar thing from Paris and London, but it's not New York.

I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New York accent.

I definitely had an advantage growing up in New York. It's different playing on a New York playground.

In New York all the young people know me... I have a lot of friends... but I hate New York.

It's about being open to what comes your way. I came to New York and saw 'Spelling Bee.' I said to myself, 'That's the greatest show ever, and I can't believe I'm not a part of it.' I felt the only way I'm going to get to be a part of something that good is to live in New York. So I moved to New York and ended up in 'Spelling Bee.'

When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again... The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

I've been back in New York a year and a half now. Before that I was on the West Coast for five years. There's no comparison between the two. You hear things in New York you don't hear anywhere else. Unless these guys go out. Quite a few make it out to the Coast. Of course, you can't stay in New York for ever. You have to move.

I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.

New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant--one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.

Everything I learned and didn't do in New York I would put into place here in the London West Hollywood. It's fascinating, when you look at the critics' reviews, and we had a great one in the New York Observer and all that, and then the New York Times came and it was a devastation; two stars out of four. They said that I played safe because it wasn't fireworks. Then they judged the persona over the substance that was on the plate.

Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

I did my New York debut at 21. It was 'On the Town' at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.

Any time you get to come to New York and be near New York City, that is a very cool opportunity.

I loved New York, but I never quite felt like New York was my home either.

New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city.

New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.

New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters.

By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.

New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.

I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.

I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.

I listened to a lot of Jay Z and Nas, stuff like that, so I was always New York-influenced. I think I have that New York flow.

Living in New York, no big deal. I am loving New York - there is something about the energy.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange. And I don't feel like a stranger. I have more friends in New York than Paris.

New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.

I have tremendous affection for New York and my life, but I'm a satirist at heart. And it's easy to satirize New York.

Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.

I've been living in New York City almost seven years, and my mentality has changed a lot. Just from being in New York this long and going across America, I realize that in New York, nobody really cares. They are just like, "We're New Yorkers." I feel like that is really the way it should be.

I thought, 'I'll come back to New York. I worked for the 'Aspen Times' when I lived in Aspen. I'll work for the 'New York Times' when I live in New York.' It didn't work out that way.

The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news. I didn’t relate to European photography. It was too poetic and anecdotal for me… the kinetic quality of new york, the kids, dirt, madness—I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I would be grainy and contrasted and black. Id crop, blur, play with the negatives. I didn’t see clean technique being right for New York. I could imagine my pictures lying in the gutter like the New York Daily News.

But if you're from New York and you grew up here, you have it built into you - what a slice of pizza is supposed to be - in a way that people from outside of New York don't.

The best thing about New York is everything is available. Whatever you want, New York has got it!

I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.

The New York Times will tell you what is going on in Afghanistan or the Horn of Africa. But it is no exaggeration that The New York Times has more people in India than they have in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is a borough of two million people. They're not a Bloomingdale's people, not trendy, sophisticated, the quiche and Volvo set. The New York Times does not serve those people.

I don't spend a lot of time here in New York. I didn't realize there were so many Bruins fans in New York.

This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.

I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.

I did my New York debut at 21. It was “On the Town” at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.

New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.

I don't necessarily notice too much of a change in the sense of the kind of matches that I have in say a Los Angeles as opposed to a New York City. The big difference that I notice, and this is what all love as New York city and Philadelphia has treated me fantastically, but man, you cannot screw up in Philadelphia and New York.

I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.

Start spreading the news, I am leaving today. I want to be a part of it, New York, New York.

Shooting in New York is the shiznit, if I may be so bold. It was great. New York is a character. People who live here know that.

I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.