Classic New York Sayings

#1. I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

Banksy

#2. Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York.

Katharine McPhee

#3. People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

John Hawkes

#4. We are identified and known by the sort of fruit, the quantity of fruit, and the quality of fruit borne out in our daily conversation, conduct, and character. There is no greater criterion for Christians. It is the paramount gauge of God's people.

W. Phillip Keller

#5. It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.

Laila Robins

#6. I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.

Adam Gopnik

#7. He's like my wolf - dangerous, alluring and protective - but I can never get close enough or else he'll bite me.

Krista Ritchie

#8. To the memory of Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, El Greco, and many others who came before me as well as those who will come after. We are one. Thank you.

Luther E. Vann

#9. It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.

George Washington

#10. Dracula shows his fangs, and the Okie flees through a cornfield. Cornstalks smack her face. "Help!" she screams to a sky full of crows. "He's not actually from Europe!

Karen Russell

#11. I think desire is the most powerful force in the universe.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#12. Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn't get to be.

Tina Fey

#13. Just because you cannot fight every evil does not mean you should fight no evils.

Dennis Prager

#14. It was through eavesdropping that I learned that you could buy fresh peanut butter at Whole Foods from a machine that grinds it in front of you. I had wasted so much of my life eating stupid old, already-ground peanut butter. So, yeah, I highly recommend a little nosiness once in a while.

Mindy Kaling

#15. Everyone hurts you at some point though; even those you love and trust the most inevitably betray you in some way

Christin Lovell

#16. Every man needs a good, solid watch. My favorite watch is the Presidential Rolex. I own many watches, but this one is usually the one on my wrist. I buy mine in the Diamond District in New York City. Classic.

French Montana

#17. New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

Anthony Weiner

#18. Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.

Eric Hoffer

#19. Being used now, in order to force slavery on to Kansas; for it cannot be done in any other way. [Sensation.] The

Abraham Lincoln