Quotes about new-york
new-york cities melting
Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill. John Lindsay
new-york rights victory
Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress. John Legend
new-york thinking voice
It used to be trained professionals doing animation and they were great. Now they have celebrities and famous actors doing the voices, but that does not always work. But I think this film turned out really well, partly because the three of us (me, Ray and Denis) are comedians who are used to doing solo acts and doing certain types of voices. The three of us are New York guys, we all came up the same way in the profession and we are all edgy and enjoy doing family movies. It was a good combination I think. John Leguizamo
new-york broke made
The New York Times made you or broke you.
new-york regret air
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening. John Lennon
new-york america rome
If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.
new-york winter thinking
I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane. John Landis
new-york demise broadway
Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart. John Lahr
new-york thinking careers
I think God must have had something in mind for me that was not on my radar when I first started out in New York. Back then, doing animated voices meant your career was done - it was looked down upon. Jodi Benson
new-york crazy writing
I did always want to write. And then, when I left New York, where I was working very steadily in the theater - I had done three Broadway shows in a row and was a bit burnt out - I moved out to L.A. and I was not working very much. I came in cold and I'd work for a week, but then I'd have a month or two off. I thought, "I'm going to go crazy unless I actually do write." Like a lot of things in life, it was a situation that came about by circumstances. Jim Piddock
new-york appreciate guy
I appreciate that the New York Daily News will show dead bodies but blur the cover of a French parody magazine. Just out of respect, right guys? Jim Norton
new-york stars play
I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing. Joan Van Ark
new-york war boston
Is it to be expected that the Southern States will deliver themselves bound hand and foot to the Eastern States? A few rich merchants in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York could thereby monopolise the staples of the Southern States and reduce their value. George Mason
new-york people breakfast-at-tiffanys
And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors. Audrey Hepburn
new-york cities world
New York is my favorite city in the world. Liam Gallagher
new-york manhattan pavement
He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman. Lewis Mumford
new-york cities manhattan
Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds. Le Corbusier
new-york havens died
You haven't lived until you died in New York. Alexander Woollcott
new-york cities would-be
I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment. Abigail Breslin
new-york want way
I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.
new-york years southern-italy
My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English. Abel Ferrara
new-york cities being-there
Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented. A. E. Hotchner
new-york writing cities
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. Agatha Christie
new-york humble cities
I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am. Adrienne Bailon
new-york escaping twins
I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die Adrian Grenier
new-york cutting legs
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off. Adam Rapp
new-york fun halloween
This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu and 50 million of us are going to die.' We wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we've been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear. Adam Gollner
new-york coffee trying
The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers. Adam Gopnik
new-york coffee thinking
I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
new-york school artist
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that. Ad Reinhardt
new-york computer competence
The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush. Ada Louise Huxtable
new-york names irreverence
New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
new-york blow tin-cans
Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed