Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

I am told the settlement of $5 million I am being paid is the largest amount ever paid under the New York right to privacy law

Woody Allen

New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome.

Richard Gere

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.

Robert Duvall

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

Robin Williams

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.

Robert T. Bakker

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

Robert Smithson

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

Robert Quine

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

Robert Rauschenberg

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

Sarah Vowell

In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to hold up a cigarette lighter in a stadium to the tune of "mourn together, suffer together." City on a hill, though -- that has a backbeat we can dance to. And that's why the citizens of the United States not only elected and reelected Ronald Reagan; that's why we ARE Ronald Reagan.

William Howard Taft

The City that knows how.

Walt Whitman

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

Saint Augustine

Every city is a living body.

Will Oldham

Cities are made for enemies to destroy.

Zaha Hadid

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

Winston Churchill

Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.

William Hazlitt

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

Yehuda Amichai

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Thora Birch

I'm really lucky! I'm just cognisant that I wanna move forward, and people will let me or not; who knows.

Simon Spurr

People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

Matthew Devost

There are a lot of smart people out there. And they will always find a way in if there is something they want.