Quintessentially New York Quotes

#1. The music that I was playing and writing in those early years, that I was importing to Europe, was quintessentially New York music in a way that I always hoped it would be. I wanted my concert music to be as distinctive as Zappa at the Fillmore East, and I think I ended up doing that.

Philip Glass

#2. Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,
Ang'ring itself and others.

William Shakespeare

#3. The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

Jenim Dibie

#4. Children are never too young to begin the study of nature's book, and never too old to quit.

~Laura Hecox

Candace Fleming

#5. The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

Mary Higgins Clark

#6. Be fair. Play hard.

Dan Venezia

#7. I love clothes. Maybe I can say I don't love fashion, but I love clothes completely.

Miuccia Prada

#8. My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.

Toni Morrison

#9. Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

J.I. Packer

#10. Existence was bigger than just life. It was everyone's life all together, and even if you lived in Buffalo, New York and had never been more than ten miles from home, you were part of the puzzle, too. It didn't matter how small your life was.

Paul Auster

#11. I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

Timothy Radcliffe

#12. Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone.

S.A. Tawks

#13. Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

Honore De Balzac