Quotes about new-york
new-york government people
The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act. Andrew Cuomo
new-york nerves
New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves. Ambrose Bierce
new-york expression cities
URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others.
new-york gambling egotism
Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
new-york thinking trying
I love New York, and I would love to try to live here for a while if I ever got the chance, but it's also extremely hectic. I don't think I would cope with that. Alicia Vikander
new-york war thinking
I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened. Alicia Witt
new-york kids concrete-jungle
When I was a kid, I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one. Alicia Keys
new-york california commit
Professionally, I decided to commit a lot of my time to California because there wasn't a whole lot happening for me in New York. Alice Barrett
new-york cities people
City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen. Alice Cooper
new-york columns stores
Well, I refer to 'Celebrity Jeopardy ' as the short-bus 'Jeopardy,' because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming stores in New York. Andy Richter
new-york winning men
Your pitching coach is almost like your spouse. He's someone to go to when you want to gripe and complain. The big thing for me with Mel (Stottlemyre) is that we've been through so much together. He's been through everything I've been through on the mound. He was a Yankee who won twenty games in New York and a Yankee who didn't win twenty games in New York. For me, he's been there and that's what makes a good pitching coach. He's a good man, too. Andy Pettitte
new-york play yankees
I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.
new-york husband one-day
Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed. Alber Elbaz
new-york men
I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York! Albert Brooks
new-york insomnia islands
Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island. Albert Camus
new-york real blow
I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.
new-york feelings london
The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big. America Ferrera
new-york thinking made
I think I was made to live in New York. I love it. AnnaSophia Robb
new-york ornaments building
One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings. Annabelle Selldorf
new-york home paris
Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York. Clemence Poesy
new-york dont-trust-anyone cant-trust-anyone
I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.
new-york party moving
There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews. Anna Quindlen
new-york book people
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
new-york cities progress
New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
new-york cities identity
New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity.
new-york months miami
I’m excited to join Power 105.1 in New York and The Beat in Miami and expand my brand even further in the coming months. Angie Martinez
new-york agency office
My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty. Cindy Gallop
new-york lying manhattan
Actually, New York is great for playing around. I made a lot of studies for New York-a big vacuum cleaner lying on the Battery in Manhattan. Claes Oldenburg
new-york years records
I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."
new-york very-happy commerce
I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.
new-york agency one-day
I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some. Alexis Bledel
new-york sex men
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual. Angela Carter
new-york cities firsts
I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that. Amy Sedaris