Top 89 Quotes About Nyc
#1. they can all stand quiescent in airless venues for extended periods, their eyes' expressions that unique NYC combination of Zen meditation and clinical depression, clearly unhappy but never complaining.
David Foster Wallace
#2. We all have those moments where we realize how easily our lives could be so different, for better or for worse. I met my husband at a gym in NYC! What if I'd joined a different gym? What if I hadn't worked out in the afternoons? These questions are endless.
Allison Winn Scotch
#3. I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.
Aida Turturro
#4. It is always a pleasure to see what NYC, London, Paris and Milan have to offer.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
#5. My good friends David and Avi sent me a text greeting from their gym in NYC at 8 a.m. this morning. Isn't that a fine how do you do!
Dean Haglund
#6. I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.
Adrian Grenier
#7. My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.
Rick Moody
#8. I was born in Newton, MA. Graduated from Brown University in 2001 with honors in English as a playwright. I attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Waterford, CT just after Brown. I moved to NYC in 2002 and was a professional ... waiter, for 3 years.
John Krasinski
#9. I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
Fanny Howe
#10. Friday's "Working Lunch" is at The Avenue on St James's Street. It's a bit like eating in an art installation, a White-Out affair that tries for a So-Serious NYC feel, but is occupied by Daddy's Girls wearing pashmina's and too many Pin Stripes worn by too many people called Hugo.
Simon Pont
#11. I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, but it took about 10 days and comedy clubs were packed.
Bill Burr
#12. Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets ... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.
Wyclef Jean
#13. I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep.
Neil Patrick Harris
#14. LOVE IT! Yeah. They've been doing BIG billboards of this in the gayborhoods in NYC, LA and SanFran.
Although I wouldn't fuck a Scientologist on a dare. 8|
Damon Suede
#15. There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.
Trevor Dunn
#16. New York is like that perfect lover that just won't commit but he's so good that you hang around anyway, NYC is dreamy!
Bevy Smith
#17. NYC, You Inspire Me to never stop exploring the endless possibilities of food.
Mike Lee
#18. Cities like New York have already followed San Francisco and have started similar organizations like sfCiti; New York has TECH NYC.
Ron Conway
#19. Breaking News: Winds so strong in NYC The Statue of Liberty's gown just blew off!
Kevin Nealon
#20. Hello from the gutters of NYC, which is filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine,and blood. Hello from the sewers of NYC which swallow up these delicacies when they are washed away by the sweeper trucks.
David Berkowitz
#21. I like to style myself, as my first job out of university was working at 'Vogue' magazine in NYC, and I grew up attending the collections with my mother, so I have a particular aesthetic, which is classic glamour with a twist.
Carly Steel
#22. NYC Institute has one. I'll show you sometime if you want.
It's a date.
It is maybe the least romantic spot in the Institute, by the way.
You'll make up for that, I'm sure.
(Jeez, get a locked room on unsanctified ground, you two.)
Cassandra Clare
#23. NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives.
Nils Parker
#24. I love nyc. It's the city of my birth and probably the most amazing city on the planet.
Moby
#25. My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.
James Iha
#26. $20 by Vanessa Place, the first product of VanessaPlace Inc., debuted on May 3, 2013 at Cage, NYC.
The limited edition of $20, available for $50, sold out within the hour.
$20 - Poetry that speaks for itself
Vanessa Place
#27. When I was starting out there was no Internet, there wasn't this sense that you could be connected to other writers around the world. And that created a kind of innocence, or parochial quality, even in NYC.
Dani Shapiro
#28. When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who ... owns NYC practically. That's a mogul. I feel like I'm on my way to a lot more, but mogul is a really serious thing. I think it's a word that gets thrown around easily.
Tyra Banks
#29. There are never fewer than eight Tracey Ullman characters in any NYC nail salon at any given time.
Tina Fey
#30. Oh God. Goddammit. I never got to see the pyramids. Or the Taj Mahal. I ... I never even got to leave the country."
"Don't sweat it, brother. You got to live in NYC. You didn't miss shit.
Brian K. Vaughan
#31. NYC is chaotic. And I am attracted to chaos.
Trevor Dunn
#32. I wrote this HAIKU cuz today NYC definitely looks like a wonderland. ENJOY
what is winter but
a pastry chef gone crazy
frosting all in sight
Robin Glasser
have fun in the snow
Robin Glasser
#33. When I was young, I wanted to be a movie star. But I realized that you have no control being an actor. So I went to architecture school in NYC, because I was crazy about buildings. Then I began to realize that I got more excited about Vogue coming out each month than I was about my projects.
Tom Ford
#34. I think I can safely say I am the only guy in NYC in possession of two cocks. Is that a bonus or what?
Jodi Knight
#35. My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.
Julianna Baggott
#36. I am a different person in NYC. My energy is way different. I just make sense here.
David Burtka
#37. I met Keith Haring at SVA college where he was having an art show, later we had a group art show at the Mud Club in NYC. Keith owed me $50, so he gave me a large framed canvas with barking dogs that had large dicks. I painted over Keith's painting to paint flowers for my mom's living room.
Steve Kaufman
#38. I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
Rachel Sklar
#40. I sleep on a tar roof
scream my songs
into lazy floods of stars ...
a white powder paddles through blood and heart
and the returns
pure and easy ...
This city is on my side.
Jim Carroll
#42. ... but because they felt the neighborhood was safer than the one around Columbia, the medical campus of which was so far north that it was practically an annex of the Bronx
Michelle Au
#43. This morning I wake to the blue-white light of an approaching spring in New York: the kind of light that promises it will not be this cold forever.
Tre Miller Rodriguez
#44. Women of Manhattan, magnificent as they were, they forgot sometimes they weren't immortal. They could throw themselves like confetti into a fun-filled Friday night, with no thought as to what crack they fell into by Saturday.
Marisha Pessl
#45. I've found that here in this city, the lights burn ever brighter, but they cast the darkest shadows I know.
Leslie Parry
#47. A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time," she said. "I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")
Ray Bradbury
#48. Everyone in New York City thinks they are famous without being famous.
Ethan H. Minsker
#49. To people from 'Brooklyn-Brooklyn' North Brooklyn is really just South Queens.
Dallas Athent
#50. What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to the clouds like a magic castle girdled by water? Its very touch of jumbled jaggedness, its towering-sided canyons, are its magnificence.
Jane Jacobs
#51. Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students.
Imogen Binnie
#53. I have never learned how to tell somebody something good about myself; that should be a secret they must find out .
Joan Rivers
#55. Editors keep pushing
deadline strain while people sleep
on benches and subway grates;
a welter weight boxer dances
on the platform at 125th Street
station, commuters look unfazed...
Kristen Henderson
#56. Maybe that is why in my comedy I try and puncture the hypocrisy all around us, why it is almost a crusade with me to strip life down to what really is true.
Joan Rivers
#57. It gathers emotionally inside you, in a strange way a by-product of struggle, of a willingness to do anything, try anything, expose yourself to anything - staying in motion because sooner or later those ripples will cause change.
Joan Rivers
#58. For you cannot live in New York City very long and not be conscious of the niceties of being rich - the city is, after all, an ecstatic exercise in merchandising - and one evening of his visit to Venezuela Sutherland sat straight up when he read a line of Santayana's: Money is the petrol of life.
Andrew Holleran
#59. Don't love the job kid. The Job is a whore, and she won't love you back.
James J. Kavanaugh
#60. Everyone needs beauty. Even beautiful people"
From "Central Park Song
Zack Love
#61. Get rich or die trying
50 Cent
#62. We pick the people who populate our personal lives as much for who they make us as for who they are. I chose Anna for the person I became in her presence, and in this respect, my love for her was a more selfish one
Zack Love
#63. Liked" was the kiss of death. "Loved" or "hated" interested him. At least the performer had aroused emotion.
Joan Rivers
#64. The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it.
Joan Rivers
#65. You have got to be good in that town if you want to beat the crowd.' So says young John on his first sight of New York City. THE CROWD (1928)
Steven Jay Schneider
#66. This is the story of an electrically alive young woman on the brink of her adult life. An artist equally attuned to the light as the shadows, with a limitless hunger for experience and knowledge, completely unafraid of life's more frightening opportunities.
Elizabeth Winder
#67. Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.
Ann Douglas
#68. I said, "Is there!" I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math - if Johnny has ten fingers and they cut off two, how many does he have left?
Joan Rivers
#69. Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.
Raymond Sokolov
#70. Undergarments flapped wildly on the fire escapes above, soiled with sweat and blood: private stains, flying high over the city like crests on the flags of a ship.
Leslie Parry
#71. Ten years have passed and every day that I walk throughout the city, I feel honored to be a part of it - and atom in the blood of a beating heart belonging to the most wonderfully diverse, smart, creative, passionate being.
Melisa Singh
#72. There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.
Jonathan Lethem
#73. A new star has been born and Vera's performance brings alive the desolate life of O'Neil's young heroine in a natural talent that is so fresh and yet so ageless.
Rajiv Kapoor
#74. That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.
Amor Towles
#75. if there's one dude that everyone on the Upper West Side will welcome with open arms, it's the fucking jogger.
Caroline Kepnes
#76. Reading is the true foundation of our civil liberties.
Patricia O'Hara
#79. Laughing made me feel safe. I was not going to be enveloped by the seediness that coated this world like dust.
Joan Rivers
#80. I had a blind date with a dentist - and he told me to come back in six months.
Joan Rivers
#81. when we're done, I'll be where the night never stops
cradling a bruise that's shaped like you
wondering why sleep never came to me
wondering how I still dreamed
Alicen Grey
#82. Oh no. I'm not gonna let you leave yet. I'm gonna show you the value of takin' your time to get to work. I probably should have done this a long time ago.
Zack Love
#83. I don't know who you are," she thought, "but whoever you are, you're one hell of a player.
Jeffrey Eaton
#84. Karma was giving every evidence of being just a bit pissed with him already. No need to egg the bitch on.
Heather R. Blair
#85. {...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.
Andrea Bouchaud
#86. She was so cool, as she knew, ankles crossed
at the puckered hem of granite
gray sweatpants, and she also knew
I was watching from the open door
of the B train - watching her pose
in apparent comfort at the girder of this city thoroughfare.
Kristen Henderson
#87. Stabbings, shooting, rapes, homicides -- the denizens of places like the Elk brought those crimes along with them the way ordinary travelers carried luggage.
Linda Fairstein
#88. Empire State's orange shoulders lifted above the Hell
Allen Ginsberg
#89. When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you.
Joan Rivers
