Quotes About Times Square

#1. That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.

Michel Gondry

#2. People often think of New York as a city, a concrete jungle with soaring skyscrapers and yellow taxis and the bright lights of Times Square. And it is that, in part. But beyond that, it's rolling hills of fruit orchards and fields of grain and ice-cold waters brimming with oysters.

Daniel Humm

#3. In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

#4. I smile. "Mr. Perfect Beautiful Hockey God?"

"Oh, shut up. You know it's true," she replies in a flat tone. "You should be the face of the NHL. They should put you on billboards in Times Square. You're hot and your charm levels are through the roof.

Victoria Denault

#5. What you do for Jewish New Year is you go down to Times Square ... It's a lot quieter than the regular New Year. It's just a few Jews walking around going, "sup?"

Jon Stewart

#6. When I opened the world's largest Internet cafe, certified by the 'Guinness Book of Records,' in Times Square in New York, I was live on 'Good Morning America,' and for me, that was an achievement.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

#7. I remember the old Times Square from when I was younger, and there was a seedy thrill to it. Some of that is gone, which I have a little bit of nostalgia for.

Janeane Garofalo

#8. Lei had recently discovered how to change the display, like the Times Square JumboTron,so now the banner read: Merry Christmas! All your presents belong to Leo!

Rick Riordan

#9. Hookers in Times Square, God bless 'em, are offering a Mitt Romney Special. For an extra $20 they'll change positions.

David Letterman

#10. Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.

Eric Holder

#11. I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the 'Examiner' for the first time.

Simon Armitage

#12. How can you be organized when you're in Times Square?

Mary-Kate Olsen

#13. For people who mourn for old Times Square - hey, there's a ton of places in the city still like that! Get on the train and go visit them!

Kurt Braunohler

#14. It's very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square - that's the craziest one.

Allison Williams

#15. From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.

Penn Jillette

#16. My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.

Padma Lakshmi

#17. The world had been sanitized like Disney had done to Times Square. They had gotten rid of God, family, and country along with the graffiti.

Michael J. Sullivan

#18. I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

Jennifer Garner

#19. This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.

Dan Rather

#20. I hate, hate Times Square!

Elena Roger

#21. L.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.

Jimmy Fallon

#22. Times Square, where Broadway crosses 7th Avenue, is known as the crossroads of the world. Millions

F.P. Lione

#23. I won't go anywhere near the new Times Square. It's seizure-inducing.

Jami Attenberg

#24. Malcolm gestures in the vague direction of ugly sad lonely crap, which as it happens is toward Times Square.

Chris Pavone

#25. I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!

Betty Who

#26. Everyone who moves to New York City has a book or movie or song that epitomizes the place for them. For me, it's 'The Cricket in Times Square', written by George Selden and illustrated by Garth Williams.

Cathleen Schine

#27. If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people.

JR

#28. Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

David Wilkerson

#29. When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

Charlie Chaplin

#30. Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#31. To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the pavement. He was asked what he was looking for. He said "I lost my watch."

William Vickrey

#32. The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?

John Rocker

#33. But then we are old and have been to the wars and value our fast-diminishing freedoms unlike those jingoes now beating their tom-toms in Times Square in favor of all-out war for other Americans to fight.

Gore Vidal

#34. I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.

Alessia Cara

#35. When I was on Broadway when I was little, I remember always driving through Times Square with my dad to the theater. Now when I go back, you can't even drive on Broadway in the 40s. New Times Square is too touristy to me.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#36. When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees.

Trey Anastasio

#37. But treat dimes fair and I'm bigger than the city lights down in times square

Puff Daddy

#38. I know what you're gonna think, what you're gonna ask. Percy Jackson, why are you hanging from a Times Square billboard without your pants on, about to fall to your death?

Rick Riordan

#39. Biffi said it was more American on an air force base in Crete than it was in Times Square.

Cathleen Schine

#40. When I was the first time for a job in New York, I saw Natalia Vodianova on an oversized billboard in Times Square on a Calvin Klein billboard.

Lara Stone

#41. I used to go to the Improvisation Comedy Club every night in Times Square. How I didn't get killed in that area either means that 1) God is watching over me or 2) I am so insignificant to God that he didn't bother having me killed.

Gilbert Gottfried

#42. When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.

John Gielgud

#43. In New York, you are competing with Times Square lights and all of that, so you've got to be 300 pounds and crazy to get anyone's attention. Then, you can refine yourself. I always knew under those 300 pounds and tracksuits was a refined, slim, dignified man.

Al Sharpton

#44. If you've ever thought, 'The new Times Square is delightful but would be even better if it were more claustrophobic and nearly impossible to leave', the Aguas Calientes is calling your name

Mark Adams

#45. If humans escape the solar system and outlive the Sun, our descendants may someday live on one of these planets. Atoms from Times Square, cycled through the heart of the Sun, will form our new bodies. One day, either we will all be dead, or we will all be New Yorkers.

Randall Munroe

#46. Security here in New York City is still very tight. Hookers in Times Square now are demanding two forms of fake ID.

David Letterman

#47. I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.

John Hiatt

#48. I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.

Dhani Jones

#49. Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk.

Jack Kerouac

#50. After a pretty amazing year that included more wins than I thought possible, I rang in 2013 by watching the Times Square ball drop on TV ... and then heading directly to bed. It might not have been the typical New Year's Eve for a 21-year-old, but what can I say? It was a training night!

Ashley Wagner

#51. One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.

Marlo Thomas

#52. I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.

Malachy McCourt

#53. I plan on getting out there and mixing with the crowd. I want to show everyone what happens in Times Square not from a distance, but from right there in the crowd.

Regis Philbin

#54. You dropped a 500-seat deuce on Times Square.

Anthony Bourdain

#55. I want to stand on a platform in the middle of Times Square and shout, 'You do not have to battle your Crohn's disease alone.'

Mary Ann Mobley

#56. I can't help thinking the failed New York bomber would've done far more damage if he'd simply driven throught Times Square in a Toyota.

Frankie Boyle

#57. Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing

Joe Strummer

#58. 'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.

James Wolcott

#59. For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get. There was a lot of, 'Go two floors up and make a copy of this and then bring it to me.'

Rich Sommer

#60. I just went to Times Square and the underground movies, sometimes three a day. I did get my education. But I really believed then, in 1966, they would not have allowed me to make any of the movies I made. Today, you could make a snuff movie at NYU and get an A.

John Waters

#61. The Zocalo is a magnificent space, at least four times the size of Trafalagar Square, with the National Palace on one side, the huge cathedral on the other, and in one corner part of the old Aztec City so brutally destroyed by Hernan Cortez and the Conquistadores.

Jeremy Corbyn

#62. Worldwide, wheat covers about 870,000 square miles of the globe's surface, almost ten times the size of Britain. How did this grass turn from insignificant to ubiquitous?

Yuval Noah Harari

#63. Walt Disney World is nearly 30,000 acres, or 48 square miles. That is more than 80 times the size of Monaco. Grace Kelly would have been queen of a larger and wealthier, kingdom if she'd married Uncle Walt instead of Prince Rainier.

Eve Zibart

#64. The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.

Buzz Aldrin

#65. I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square.

Mathias Rust

#66. I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out of it.

Fred Astaire

#67. I don't demonize the downside. As we've seen in Egypt and Tahrir square and other recent event, the adhesiveness through [technology] kinds of communication is extraordinary. Interesting times we live in.

Anne Waldman

#68. If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?

Nathan Myhrvold

#69. The safest day at the Melody is St. Paddy's," adds another Mardi Gras girl. "All the cops are out vomiting at the parade.

Josh Alan Friedman

#70. I think you kept three credits, consciously or subconsciously, so that you could hang on to something, hang on and not move forward. I think you want to feel that you're still unfinished.
She wanted to tell her grandmother that she was still unfinished. Unfinished, unanswered, unformed.

Paullina Simons

#71. Is the square root of hate the same thing as love times love?

Eugene Mirman

#72. [Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

Stewart Brand

#73. And he realized then that he had not lost all those times in the training square because he lacked the skill, or the strength, or even a hand. He had lacked the will. And somewhere on the South Wind, somewhere in the trackless ice, somewhere in this ancient ruin, he had found it.

Joe Abercrombie

#74. I've played Madison Square Garden and Jones Beach several times, but I personally don't enjoy those larger venues. I much prefer theater or a performance space.

Jason Mraz

#75. But I'm three times your age or more and my brain is worn out and full up. I don't have much room to tuck new things square inside; they just cling to the outside for a while and drop off.

Orson Scott Card

#76. There was someone called Hippasus in Greek times who found out about the diagonal of a square and they drowned him because no one wanted to know about things like that. Like what? Numbers that make you uncomfortable and don't relate to oranges.

Caryl Churchill

#77. In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

Samuel Butler